 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 페이지
...own wound distils its charm in vain. EPITAPH ON THOMAS GRAY, ON HIS MONUMENT IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay ! She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. The comparison of... | |
 | 1870 - 974 페이지
...— "No more the Qrecian Muse unrivalled reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay ; She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." Talfourd says Pindar " is chiefly remarkable for the gigantic boldness of his conceptions, and the... | |
 | Wellington College - 1871 - 250 페이지
...of others who seem to have adored with a blind admiration. We hear that — " She (England) boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." Or ai;ain — " In Homer's craft Jock 3Iilton thrives ; Eschylus' ]>en Will Shakespeare drives ; Wee... | |
 | 1873 - 548 페이지
...she points upward to Milton. Beneath is the beautiful epitaph : No more the Grecian muse unrival'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay: She...Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. The inscription to which we have referred, is that strange, isolated exclamation, " O Rare Ben Jonson."... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 748 페이지
...own wound distils its charm iu vain. EPITAPH ON THOMAS GRAY, ON HIS MONUMENT IX WESTMINSTER ABBEY. No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay 1 She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. The comparison... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1876 - 162 페이지
...1778 a monument to Gray was erected in Westminster Abbey by Mason, with the following inscription : No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain...Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. The cenotaph afterwards erected in Stoke Park by Mr. Penn is described below. WEST-END HOUSE. STOKE-POGIS.... | |
 | Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1877 - 192 페이지
...follows. No more the Grecian Muse unrivalled reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay, She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of OilAif. — Mason, 1771. This again is by Pope. The Rt. Hon. Jas. Craggs, Sometime Secretary at War,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 556 페이지
...points to a bust of Milton. Beneath are the lines of Mason — " No more the Graecian mase unrival'd reigns ; To Britain let the nations homage pay : She...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." John Milton, 1671, buried at St. Giles's, Cripplegate (see Vol. I. Ch. VII.). The monument, by Rysbrack,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 536 페이지
...points to a bust of Milton. Beneath are the lines of Mason — " No more the Gta:cian muse unrival'd reigns ; To Britain let the nations homage pay : She...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." John Milton, 1671, buried at St. Giles's, Cripplegate (see Vol. I. Ch. VII.). The monument, by Rysbrack,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 페이지
...his first biographer, in his epitaph equalled him with Pindar. Britain has known, says Mason, . . ' a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." The immense vogue of Pope and of his style of versification had at first prevented the frank reception... | |
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No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. 
