 And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.  The Poetical Works of John Dryden - Page 15by John Dryden - 1852Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...hark, the horrid sound Has rais'd up his head, As awak'd from the dead, And amaz'd, he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the furies...sparkles that flash from their eyes ! Behold a ghastly hand, Each a torch in his hand, Those are Grecian ghosts, that in hattle were slain, And unhury'd remain... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...the furies arise! See the snaies that they rear, How they hiss in their hair! And the sparklesthat flash from their eyes! Behold a ghastly band, Each...are Grecian ghosts that in battle were slain, And unbury'd remain Inglorious- on the plain: Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew. Behold how they... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...having a few iambic lines interspersed. Revenge rev£nge Timotheus cries See the furies arise ! See trie snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair,...sparkles that flash from their ey'es !——— Behold how they t6ss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 566 pages
...happily seconded by the rapidity of anapaestic measure. " Revenge ! revengt: ! Timothcus cries ; Sec the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear. How they hiss in their hair, And tht sparkles that flash from their eyes. Behold how they toss their torches on high! How they point... | |
 | 1802 - 570 pages
...slaughtered Greeks ia the form of Furies, armed with horrid torches for the burning of Per«epolis : " Revenge ! revenge ! Timotheus cries : See, the furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they his« in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes ! Behold, a ghastly band, Each a torch... | |
 | David Humphreys - United States - 1804 - 440 pages
...hark the horrid sound Has rais'd up his head, As awak'd from the dead, And amaz'd he stares around. Revenge, revenge ! Timotheus cries, See the furies...the sparkles that flash from their eyes ! ' Behold a ghostly band, Each a torch in his hand! These are Grecian ghosts that in battle were slain. Whose bodies... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...Timotieus cries r See the furies arise , See the snakes that they rearr How they hiss, in the air ,. And the sparkles that flash from their eyes! Behold a ghastly band , Each a torch in his hand, These are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain, And unbury'd remain Inglorious on the plain :... | |
 | James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...still, ye shadowy ghosts.] DRTBEN'S St Cecilit. A louder yet, and yet a louder strain — — These are Grecian ghosts that in battle were slain, And unburied remain, Inglorious on the plain. E converse, " The dead v/erefull of fame." And this unintelligible rant is addressed by the ghost of... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...shadowy ghosts.] DRYDEN'S St Cecilia. A louder yet, and jet a louder strain These are Grecian gtwsts that in battle were slain, And unburied remain, Inglorious on the plain. E conTerso, " The dead were full of fame." And this unintelligible rant is addressed by the ghost of... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...up his head , As awake from the dead , And amaz'd he stares around. Revenge , revenge ! Thimotheus cries , See , the furies arise ! See the snakes that...are grecian ghosts that in battle were slain , And unbury'd remain , Inglorious on the plain ! Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew. Behold how... | |
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