 Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teemed.  The Divine Comedy - Page 296by Dante Alighieri - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 496 pages
...ashy womb now teem'd Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd. And tho' her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird ages of lives. Another species of impropriety is the unsuitableness of thoughts to the general character of the poem.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd ; f the crown that Virtue gives, After this mortal change, Man. Come, come; no time for lamentation now Nor much more cause ; Samson hath quit himself Like Samson,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 456 pages
...ashy womb now teem'd Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most inactive deem'd. And tho' her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird ages of lives. Another species of impropriety is the unsuitableness of thoughts to the general character of the poem.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 pages
...ashy womb now tcem'd Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd, And tho' her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird ages of lives. Another species of impropriety is the unsuitableness of thoughts to the general character of the poem.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd ; And, though her body die, her fame survives A secular bird ages of lives. Man. Come, come ; no time for lamentation now, Nor much more cause ; Samson hath quit himself Like... | |
 | 1822 - 370 pages
...out her ashy womb DOW teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd : And though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives. Another species of impropriety is the unsuitableness of thoughts to the general character of the poem.... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd ; And, though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives. MAN. Come, come! notimeforlamentationnow, Nor much more cause : Samson hath quit himself Like Samson,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1823 - 408 pages
...nor third, And lay ere while a holocaust ; From out her ashy womb now teem'd Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deemed, And...her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives. line 1697. Another species of impropriety, is the unsuitableness of thoughts to the general character... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...nor third, And lay ere while a holocaust ; From out her ashy womb now teem'd Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deemed, And...her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives. tine 1697. Another species of impropriety, is the unsuitableness of thoughts to the general character... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourisbes, then vigorous most When most (inactive deem'd ; And, though her body die, her fame survives A secular bird ages of lives. Man. Come, come; no time for lamentation now, Nor much more cause; Samson hath quit himself Like Samson,... | |
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