 | John Dryden - 1767 - 388 páginas
...Anc every life but mine recall. I only am by Love defign'd To be the viftim for mankind. P 4 ALE x A ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OR, THE POWER of MUSIC, An ODE, in Honour of St. CECILIA'S Day. I. 9 *TpWAS at the royal feaft, for Perfia won JL By Philip's warlike fon : Aloft in awful ftate The... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 386 páginas
...And every life but mine recall. I only am by Love defign'd To be the viftim for mankind. ALE x AK * ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OR, THE POWER of MUSIC, An ODE, in Honour of St. CECILIA'S Day. I. y *~T^ W AS at the royal feaft, for Perfia won JL By Philip's warlike Ton : Aloft in awful ftate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 328 páginas
...every life but mine recal. I only am by Love delign'd To be the victim for mankind. P 3 XII. ALEXXII. ALEXANDER'S FEAST: Or, the POWER of Music, An ODE, in honour of St. CE ci L i A'S Da1 I. WAS at the royal feaft, for Perfia won By Philip' $ warlike fon : Aloft in awful... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 312 páginas
...quite fhrink-in again: If a flow in age appear, 'Tis but rain, and runs not clear. P 3 ALEXANDER'S XIV. ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN ODE IN HONOUR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY. I. 5>~pWAS at the royal feaft, for Periia won •^ By Philip's warlike fon: Aloft in awful ftate The... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 páginas
...in " The Duke of Guife;" but neither • ; them worth tranfoibing. t И IS WORKS OF D RYDER» XIV. 9 ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. . \ AN ODE IN HONOUR OF ST. CECELIA'» DAY. 'TwAS at the royal feaft, for Perfia won By Philip's warlike ion : Aloft in awful ftate... | |
 | 1801 - 416 páginas
...wearied into rest, Recliu'd us on a rightful monarch's breast. — ™--«Pudet Iiaec opprobia vi bis ALEXANDER'S FEAST: OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN ODE. IN HONOUR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY. I. 'TwAS at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike... | |
 | David Humphreys - 1804 - 440 páginas
...ravish'd ears, The fopling hears; Assumes the shape, Looks like an ape, And grins, and laughs, and sneers. ALEXANDER'S FEAST, OR THE POWER OF MUSIC: An Ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Daj. By Mr. Dryden. I. JL WAS at the royal feast for Persia won, By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 492 páginas
...Pope's versification, it wouldbe incontestibly the nnestpoem in our language; but there is adrynessin the numbers, which greatly lessens the pleasure excited...imagination. ALEXANDER'S FEAST ; * OR THE POWER OF MUSIC. I AN ODE, IN HONOUR OF ST. CECILIA*S DAV. This ode has been more applauded, perhaps, than it has been... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 páginas
...life but mine recal. I only am, by love, designed To be the victim for mankind. ALEXANDER'S FEAST, OB THE POWER OF MUSIC; AN ODE IN HONOUR OF ST CECILIA'S DAY. This celebrated Ode was written for the Saint's Festival in 1697, when the following sttwtirds officiated... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 páginas
...from tombs, And every life but mine recal. I only am, by love, designed To be the victim for mankind. ALEXANDER'S FEAST, OR THE POWER OF MUSIC; AN ODE IN HONOUR OF ST CECILIA S DAT. ' .' t 1 1 I 1 t * : -• t This celebrated Ode my written for the Saint's Festival... | |
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Few poems have done more honour to English genius than this. There is in it a strain of political thinking, that was, at that time, new in our poetry. Had the harmony of this been equal to that of Pope's versification, it would be incontestably the finest... 
