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. But Rome ! 'tis thine alone, with... The Westminster Review - Page 2581901Full view - About this book
| 1871 - 832 pages
...Plead better at the bar ; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise ; But, Rome, 'tis thine alone, with awful sway, To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way ; To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free: These are imperial arts, and... | |
| 1871 - 848 pages
...Plead better at the bar ; describe the skies. And when the stars descend, and when they rise ; But, Rome, 'tis thine alone, with awful sway. To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way; To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free: These are imperial arts, and worthy... | |
| Augustine David Crake - 1872 - 268 pages
...tibi erunt artes ; pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subjectis, etdebellare superbos. — Virgil. But Rome, 'tis thine alone, with awful sway To rule mankind,...and make the world obey ; Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way ; To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free ; These are imperial arts, and... | |
| Thomas Nicholas - Celts - 1873 - 602 pages
...rights which the laws conferred, and the unfailing favour and protection of Rome were guaranteed. But, Rome, 'tis thine alone with awful sway, To rule mankind, and make the world obey : To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free ; These are imperial arts, and worthy thee." 1 Ess.... | |
| England - 1873 - 664 pages
...ios, And when the stars descend, anil when thry rise. Dut Rome ! 'tiu thine alone, with awful ewny, To rule mankind and make the world obey. Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way : To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free, These are iiujttrial acta, and... | |
| William Ewart Gladstone - Great Britain - 1879 - 280 pages
...lines of a translation from Virgil by our great poet Dryden, which run as follows : — ' 0 Eome ! 'tis thine alone with awful sway To rule mankind,...example. No doubt the word ' Empire ' was qualified with the word ' Liberty.' But what did the two words 'Liberty' and 'Empire' mean in a The policy of... | |
| George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 546 pages
...was sealed with the tlmt subject ; and I affirm that nothing worthless bribe of the possession and can be more fundamentally unsound, more practically...example. No doubt the word " Empire " was qualified with the word " Liberty." But what did the two words, " Liberty " and " Empire," mean in a Roman mouth... | |
| Samuel Bennett (barrister.) - 1880 - 164 pages
...lines of a translation from Virgil by our great poet Dryden, which runs as follows : — ' " 'Oh Bome ! 'tis thine alone with awful sway To rule mankind,...example. No doubt the word 'Empire' was qualified with the word ' Liberty.' But what did the two words, ' Liberty ' and ' Empire ' mean in the Roman... | |
| William Ewart Gladstone - 1880 - 372 pages
...our great poet Dryden, which run as follows : — ' 0 Rome ! 'tii thine alone with awful sway To role mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace...example. No doubt the word ' Empire ' was qualified with the word ' Liberty.' But what did the two words 'Liberty* and 'Empire* mean in a The policy of... | |
| Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...Plead better at the bar, describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise : But, Rome, 'tis thine alone, with awful sway, To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way; To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free, These are imperial arts, and worthy... | |
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