 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 awful...  The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 421by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Full view - About this book
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1871 - 866 pages
...boast, and accomplished it with unflinching determination : Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass. And soften...the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they riso ; But, Rome, 'tis thine alone, with awful sway. To rule mankind, and make the world obey. Disposing... | |
 | Augustine David Crake - 1872 - 268 pages
...Hoe tibi erunt artes ; pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subjectis, etdebellare superbos. — Virgil. But Rome, 'tis thine alone, with awful sway To rule...obey ; Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way ; To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free ; These are imperial arts, and worthy thee. — Dryden.... | |
 | Thomas Nicholas - 1873 - 602 pages
...subjectis, et debellare superbos." ' JEncld, vi. 847. 1 " Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass ; And soften...skies, And when the stars descend and when they rise. Other ancient nations often pursued the blind policy of exterminating or reducing to slavery the conquered.... | |
 | Thomas Nicholas - 1873 - 606 pages
...Parcere subjectis, et debellare superbos." ' &ncid, vi. 847. 1 " 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, deseribe the skies, And when the stars descend and when they rise. Other ancient nations often pursued... | |
 | England - 1873 - 664 pages
...ios, And when the stars descend, anil when thry rise. Dut Rome ! 'tiu thine alone, with awful ewny, 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 iiujttrial acta, and worthy thee." These... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...figure to the life express'd The godhead's pow'r. DRYDEN. Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh a marble face. DRYDEN. Where statues breathed, the works of Phidias' hands, A wooden pump or lonely watch-house stands.... | |
 | Virgil - 1877 - 528 pages
...to fate ! Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, 1170 And soften into flesh a marble face; Plead better...awful sway, To rule mankind, and make the world obey : 1 175 Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way. To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...figure to the life expressed The godhead's pow'r. DRYDEN. Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh a marble face. DRYDEN. Where statues breathed, the works of Phidias' hands, A wooden pump or lonely watch-house stands.... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1879 - 280 pages
...lines of a translation from Virgil by our great poet Dryden, which run as follows : — ' 0 Eome ! 'tis thine alone with awful sway To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war thine own majestic way.' We are told to fall back upon this example. No doubt the word ' Empire ' was... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pages
...under his power, and Jesus Christ comes into the world.' ROME. LET others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften...obey, Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way; To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free, These are imperial arts, and worthy thee. Dryden -Virgil,... | |
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