 Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh, a marble face ; Plead better at the bar ; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise.  Microcosm. General index - Page 169by Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Ernesto Branch - Readers - 1886 - 338 pages
...That was the Roman idea. It has been partially and not ill described in these lines from Virgil: " O Rome ! 'tis thine alone with awful sway To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war thine own majestic way." We are told to fall back upon this example. But what did the words " Liberty... | |
 | Virgil - Latin poetry - 1886 - 336 pages
...breathing brass, And sofien into flesh a marble f.iee ; Plead better at the bar ; deseribe the sk:es. And when the stars descend, and when they rise. But Rome, 'tis thine alone, with awful sway, Го rule mankind anil make the world obey, Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way. To tame the... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1887 - 510 pages
...meatas Describent radio, et fnlgentia sidera dicent; Hio regere imperio populos sciat.' " Let others Plead better at the bar, describe the skies, And when...awful sway, To rule mankind, and make the world obey." Plutarch says moreover, that to appear so excellent in these less necessary qualities is to produce... | |
 | Johann Georg Heck - Art - 1888 - 736 pages
...mould the running mass Of metals, and infonn the breathing brass, And soften into flesh a marble face ; Plead better at the bar; describe the skies, And when...obey, Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way." * But, though the Romans did not practise art, they desired to patronize it. Foreign cities were compelled... | |
 | Virgil - Aeneas (Legendary character) - 1890 - 276 pages
...mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh a marble face ; Plead better at the bar ; describe the skies, And...rise : But Rome ! 'tis thine alone, with awful sway The Elysian Fields. To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war thy own majestic... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 496 pages
...superbos. yEneid vi. 851-853. Dryden's rendering of this has evidently suggested Pope's concluding line. But Rome, 'tis thine alone with awful sway, To rule mankind and make the world obev, Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way. To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free —... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 466 pages
...mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh a marble face ; Plead better at the bar, describe the skies, And when...; Disposing peace and war, thy own majestic way." — Dry den's Virgil. C. ROLLIN. AUGUSTUS C^SAR AUGUSTUS C^SAR, the first Emperor of Rome, was the... | |
 | Frank Granger - History - 1895 - 352 pages
...mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh a marble face : Plead better at the bar : describe the skies, And...the stars descend, and when they rise. But, Rome, 't is thine alone with awful sway To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 562 pages
...described in three lines of a translation from Vergil by our great poet Dryden, which run as follows : " O Rome ! 'tis thine alone with awful sway To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war thine own majestic way." We are told to fall back upon this example. No doubt the word " empire " was... | |
 | English Orators - 1900 - 558 pages
...described in three lines of a translation from Vergil by our great poet Dryden, which run as follows: " O Rome ! 'tis thine alone with awful sway To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war thine own majestic way." 347 We are told to fall back upon this example. No doubt the word " empire... | |
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