 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 σελίδες
...desire ? Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes ; The glorious fault of angels and of gods : Thence to their images on earth it flows, And in the...as lamps in sepulchres ; Like Eastern kings a lazy state they keep, And, close confined to their own palace, sleep. From these perhaps (ere nature bade... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 σελίδες
...desire ? Ambition first sprung from your bless'd abodes The glorious fault of angels and of gods : Thence to their images on earth it flows, And in the...prisoners in the body's cage ; Dim lights of life, that bum a length of years, Useless, unseen, as lamps in sepulchres ; Like eastern kings, a lazy state they... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 σελίδες
...JODGE. 83. Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes ; The glorious fault of angels and of gods : Thence to their images on earth it flows, And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows. Elegy to the Memory of a Lady. POPE. 84. Things ill got have ever bad success. King Henry 6th, Third... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 σελίδες
...JUDGE. 83. Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes ; The glorious fault of angels and of gods : Thence to their images on earth it flows, And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows. Elegy to the Memory of a Lady. POPE. 84. Things ill got have ever bad success. King Henry 6th, Third... | |
 | 1923 - 748 σελίδες
...Christ. Do thou the same! SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 289 ELEGY To the Memory of an unfortunate Lady. . . . MOST souls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age, Dull,...as lamps in sepulchres; Like eastern kings, a lazy state they keep, And close confined to their own palace, sleep. . . . Yet shall thy grave with rising... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 σελίδες
...low desire? Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods: Thence to their Images on earth it flows, And in the breasts of Kings and Heroes glows! The honourable self-murder that was a 'Roman's part' is considered by the speaker to add to the Lady's... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 σελίδες
...too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? (1. 6—8) 4 upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and pris'ners in the body's cage: Dim lights of life, that burn a length of years, Useless, unseen, as... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 σελίδες
...low desire? Ambition first sprung from your blessed abodes; The glorious fault of angels and of gods: Thence to their images on earth it flows, And in the...of years Useless, unseen, as lamps in sepulchres; 20 Like eastern kings a lazy state they keep, And close confined in their own palace sleep. From these... | |
 | Pat Rogers - 2007
...mortal body. The idea is memorably caught by Pope in Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (1717): "Most souls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age, | Dull sullen pris'ners in the body's cage" (18-19). Here he draws on the imagery of the caged soul common in emblem... | |
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Why bade ye else, ye powers ! her soul aspire Above the vulgar flight of low desire? Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; The glorious fault of angels and of gods : Thence to their images on earth it flows, And in the breasts of kings and heroes... 
