 Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did...  The Fine Arts - Seite 51von Gerard Baldwin Brown - 1891 - 321 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Philip Smith - 1864 - 620 Seiten
...AND EUROPE. 301 CHAPTER XI. THE MYTHICAL AGE OF GREECE. Some time let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter' d pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine. — MILTON. CONTBAST or ASIATIC DESPOTISM AND GRECIAN LIBERTY — SURVEY OF THE WESTERNWORLD — GREECE... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 Seiten
...power hath a true consent With planet, or with element. Some time let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine; loo Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But, oh ! sad Virgin, that... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 Seiten
...power hath a true consent 05 With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; 100 Or what, though rare, of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But, 0, sad Virgin, that... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1865 - 612 Seiten
...REPUBLICS. CHAPTER XI. THE MYTHICAL AGE OF GREECE. Some time let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter' d poll come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.— MILTON. CONTRAST OF ASIATIC DESPOTISM AND GRECIAN LIBERTY — SURVEY OF THE WESTERN WORLD GREECE AND... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 Seiten
...power hath a true consent With planet, or with element. Sometimes let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes' or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But, O sad virgin, that thy power... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1916 - 492 Seiten
...doubt. When I read those wonderfully beauteous words — "Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine" there flash over me in reminiscence all those old Greek plays that have come down to us from the festival... | |
 | 1909 - 512 Seiten
...Purgatory and the citadels of Paradise. It was the same with drama. Tragedy with sceptered pall came sweeping by, Presenting Thebes or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, or the Wars of the Roses, or the exploits of Moor and Christian under old Andalusian walls, or the... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 Seiten
...theatre whereas II Penseroso prefers classical drama: "Sometime let Gorgeous Tragedy / In scepter'd Pall come sweeping by, / Presenting Thebes, or Pelops line, / Or the tale of Troy divine" (11. 97-100). Yet II Penseroso does not dismiss all contemporary dramatists, for he then adds "Or what... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 Seiten
...power hath a true consent 95 With Planet, or with Element. Sometime let Gorgeous Tragedy In Scepter'd Pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, 100 Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the Buskin'd stage. But, O sad Virgin, that thy... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 2000 - 360 Seiten
...1927), 45.) 2O-I . Thebes and Pelops' line: W is quoting Milton's IlPenseroso (97-100): 'Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy | In sceptered pall come sweeping...Thebes, or Pelops' line, | Or the tale of Troy divine'. 'Thebes' refers to those tragedies concerning Oedipus and his family; Pelops was the ancestor of Atreus... | |
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