 Their arms, their kings, their gods were rolled away. As oft have issued, host impelling host, The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast. The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields. With grim delight...  The lives of the popes - Page 45by Lives - 1799Full view - About this book
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...unwilling deep: Here force and hardy deeds of blood prevail; There languid pleasure sighs in every gale. Oft o'er the trembling nations from afar Has Scythia breathed the living cloud of war; And, where the deluge burst, with sweepy sway Their arms, their kings, their gods were... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 pages
...deep. Here force and hardy deeds of blood prevail ; There languid Pleasure sighs in every gale. * • Oft o'er the trembling Nations from afar Has Scythia breathed the living cloud . of war ; And , where the deluge burst with sweepy sway , Their arms , their kings , their gods... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...deep : Here Force and hardy deeds of blood prevail ; There languid Pleasure sighs in every gale. 45 Oft o'er the trembling nations from afar Has Scythia breathed the living cloud of war ; Ver. 36. While mutual wishes, mutual woes endear.] The Deity, in the language of the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...unwilling deep. Here force and hardy deeds of blood prevail; There languid pleasure sighs in every gale. rs and reasoners have agreed f hat there is & strict universal resemblan cloud of war; And, where the deluge burst, with sweepy sway, Their arms, their kings, their erode were... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - World history - 1835 - 324 pages
...of his splendid style of poetic description, the irruption of the barbarous nations into Italy : — -Oft o'er the trembling nations, from afar, Has Scythia breathed the living cloud of war ; And where the deluge burst, with sweeping sway, Their arms, their kings, their gods... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - History, General - 1835 - 320 pages
...of his splendid style of poetic description, the irruption of the barbarous nations into Italy : — Oft o'er the trembling nations, from afar, Has Scythia breathed the living cloud of war ; And where the deluge burst, with sweeping sway, Their arms, their kings, their gods... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - World history - 1839 - 328 pages
...his splendid style of poetic description, the irruption of the barbarous nations into Italy: — " Oft o'er the trembling nations, from afar, Has Scythia breathed the living cloud of war ; And where the deluge burst, with sweeping sway, Their arms, their kings, their gods... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...unwilling deep : Here force and hardy deeds of blood prevail ; There languid pleasures sigh in every gale. Oft o'er the trembling nations from afar Has Scythia breathed the living cloud of war ; And, where the deluge burst, with sweepy sway Their arms, their kings, their gods, were... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1850 - 672 pages
...Voltaire, in a few words, (torn. xp 64, Hist. Generale, c. 156,) has abridged the Tartar conquests. Oft o'er the trembling nations from afar, Has Scythia breathed the living cloud of war.* 7 The fourth book of Herodotus affords a curious, though imperfect, portrait of the... | |
 | Papacy - 1853 - 566 pages
...hostile, but had quietly settled for the present in the western and northern parts of Europe. Newkingdoms had sprung up, and the descendants of Alaric and his...nations from afar Has Scythia breathed the living cloud of war; And, where the deluge burst, with sweepy sway Their arms, their kings, their gods, were... | |
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