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" Oh! fair and favour'd city, where of old The balmy airs were rich with melody, That led her pomp beneath the cloudless sky In vestments flaming with the orient gold; Her gold is dim, and mute her music's voice, The Heathen o'er her perish'd pomp rejoice.... "
The wars of the Jews, adapted to the capacities of young persons [by aunt Jane]. - Page 207
by Flavius Josephus - 1824
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The Fall of Jerusalem: A Dramatic Poem by the Rev. H. H. Hilman

Henry Hart Milman - Jerusalem - 1820 - 192 pages
...wine-cup of festivity is spilt, And all is o'er, her grandeur and her guilt. Oh! fair and favour'd city, where of old The balmy airs were rich with melody,...was every palm-deck'd street, Down which the maidens danced with tinkling feet; How proud the elders in the lofty gate! How crowded all her nation's solemn...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 7

1820 - 596 pages
...wine-cup of festivity is spilt, And all is o'er, her grandeur and her guilt. Oh ! fair and favour'd city, where of old The balmy airs were rich with melody,...was every palm-deck'd street, Down which the maidens danced with tinkling feet ; How proud the elders in the lofty gate ! How crowded all her nation's solemn...
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The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc

Great Britain - 1820 - 866 pages
...favonr'd city, where of old The balmy airs were rich v.'ith melodv, That led her pomp beneath the cloudlew sky, In vestments flaming with the orient gold ; Her...dim, and mute her music's voice, The Heathen o'er her perish' d pomp rejoice. How stately then Wiis every piilm-ilecU'd street, Down whi'.'h the maidens...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 86

English literature - 1820 - 606 pages
...wine-cup of festivity is spilt, And all is o'er, her grandeur and her guilt. Oh ! fair and favour'd city, where of old The balmy airs were rich with melody, That led her pomp beneath the cloudless «ky In vestments flaming with the orient gold ; Her gold is dim, and mute her music's voice, The Heathen...
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Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, Volume 4

William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1820 - 888 pages
...wine-cup of festivity is spilt, And all is o'er, her grandeur and her guilt. Oh ! fair and favour1 d. city, where of old The balmy airs were rich with melody, That led her pomp beneath the cloudl«ss sky, In vestments flaming with the orient gold ; Her gold is dim, and mute her music's voice,...
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The Fall of Jerusalem: A Dramatic Poem

Henry Hart Milman - Jerusalem - 1822 - 352 pages
...wine-cup of festivity is spilt, And all is o'er, her grandeur and her guilt. Oh ! fair and favour'd city, where of old The balmy airs were rich with melody,...was every palm-deck'd street, Down which the maidens danced with tinkling feet ; How proud the elders in the lofty gate ! How crowded all her nation's solemn...
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The Wars of the Jews

Christian Isobel Johnstone - Aunts - 1823 - 260 pages
...dear?" " I think I can, Aunt : I will try, at least,'' said Fanny. : •" " Oh ! fair and favour'd city, where of old The balmy airs were rich with melody,...perish'd pomp rejoice. How stately then was every palm-deck' d street, Down which the maidens danc'd with tinkling feet ! How proud the elders in the...
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The Wars of the Jews, as Related by Josephus, Adapted to the Capacities of ...

Christian Isobel Johnstone - Jews - 1826 - 222 pages
...them, my dear ?" " I think I can, Aunt : I will try, at least," said Fanny. "Oh ! fair and favour'd city, where of old The balmy airs were rich with melody,...was every palm-deck'd street, Down which the maidens danced with tinkling feet ! How proud the elders in the lofty gate ! How crowded all her nation's solemn...
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The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the ...

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...festivity is spilt, And all is o'er, her grandeur and her guilt. 2 Oh ! fair and favoured city ! There of old The balmy airs were rich with melody That led...cloudless sky In vestments flaming with the orient gold, 3 Her gold is dim, and mute her music's voice, The Heathen o'er her perished pomp rejoice. 4 How stately...
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Poetry for Schools: Designed for Reading and Recitation. The Whole Selected ...

Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...Christian soldier, after the siege of Jerusa3m, thus deplores its destruction •. " Oh! fair and favour'd city, where of old The balmy airs were rich with melody, That led her pomp beneath the cloudless sky In vestment:- flaming with the orient gold ; Her gold is dim, and mute her music's voice, The Heathen...
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