 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 lapas
...human mind. " Behold ! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays. Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. With sweeter notes each rising temple rung ; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung." The... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 lapas
...and, mindful of his past glory, began to resume his ancient dominion over the human mind. " Behold ! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays. Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his reVrend... | |
 | Bombay (India : State). Board of Education - 1851 - 768 lapas
...for what were 3 they respectively celebrated ? and in what language did each of them write ? (10) " But see ! each Muse in Leo's golden days Starts from her trance, and trims her ivifher'd lays ; Rome's ancient genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his reverend... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - 1851 - 700 lapas
...numerous enlightened men; and Leo X., about 1513, gave vast encouragement to literature and the arts : " But see ! each Muse in Leo's golden days Starts from her trance, and trims her wither' d bays ; Rome's ancient genius, o'er its nuns spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'... | |
 | James Dennistoun - 1851 - 534 lapas
...his official charge of the antique monuments remains in an eloquent report to the Pope, in which, " Rome's ancient genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears its reverend head." Its authorship has given rise to some controversy, and it seems not unlikely that... | |
 | James Dennistoun - 1851 - 528 lapas
...his official charge of the antique monuments remains in an eloquent report to the Pope, in which, " Rome's ancient genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears its revereud head." Its authorship has given rise to some controversy, and it seems not unlikely that... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 lapas
...torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see! each muse in Leo's3 golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her...bays ; Rome's ancient genius, o'er its ruins spread, 140 Shakes off the dust, and rears its reverend head. Then sculpture and her sister-arts revive, Stones... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 lapas
...the shame !) Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But, see ! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays ! Rome's ancient genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his reverend... | |
 | sir Francis Palgrave - 1852 - 648 lapas
...interest, as having been built under the directions of the celebrated Jerome Vida : — " But see 1 each muse in Leo's golden days Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays ; Rome's ancient genius o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his reverend... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 556 lapas
...transferred to Pekin ; and, in his reign, Timour, or Tamerlane, dicd on his way to the conqnest of Chinn. * " But see ! each Muse, in LEO'S golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays, Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend... | |
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Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung. 
