 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
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 456 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." — Dryden's Virgil. C. ROLLIN. AUGUSTUS C£SAR. AUGUSTUS C^BSAR, the first... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 496 pages
...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 —... | |
 | Frank Granger - Rome - 1895 - 364 pages
...better at the bar : describe the skies, And when 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 thy own majestic way. To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free, These are imperial arts, and worthy... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 562 pages
...Roman idea. It has been partially and not ill described in three lines of a translation from Vergil by our great poet Dryden, which run as follows : "...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... | |
 | English Orators - 1900 - 558 pages
...Roman idea. It has been partially and not ill described in three lines of a translation from Vergil by our great poet Dryden, which run as follows: "...obey, Disposing peace and war thine own majestic way." 347 We are told to fall back upon this example. No doubt the word " empire " was qualified with the... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 466 pages
...not ill described in three lines of a translation from Virgil by our great poet Dryden, which runs as follows: " O Rome! 'tis thine alone with awful...world obey, Disposing peace and war thine own majestic wax." We are told to fall back upon this example. No doubt the word " empire " was qualified with the... | |
 | Frederick Brigham De Berard - Literature - 1902 - 342 pages
...face; 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... | |
 | Robert Schwickerath - 1903 - 714 pages
...which seems to have been fitted to legislate, to govern, and to command, as the great poet has it : "O Rome, 'tis thine alone with awful sway To rule mankind and make the world obey."3 The study of Latin requires such application of various rules and laws that it forces the student... | |
 | Virgil - 1904 - 520 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...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... | |
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