 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 642
...his first biographer, in his epitaph equalled him with Pindar. Britain has known, says Mason, . . ' a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.' The immense vogue of Pope and of his style of versification had at first prevented the frank reception... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 632
...his first biographer, in his epitaph equalled him with Pindar. Britain has known, says Mason, . . ' a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." The immense vogue of Pope and of his style of versification had at first prevented the frank reception... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 356
...which seems to hare this defect, that it is as much applicable to a monument to Milton, as to Gray : " No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain...strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." See Mason's Works, vol. ip 141. On Venn's Cenotaph to Gray, see Repton's Inquiry into the Changes of... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 584
...plain base below the Muse, in capital italics, are the lines, — " No more the Grecian Muse unrivalled reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay ; She...strains, A PINDAR'S rapture in the lyre of GRAY." Latin inscriptions to Shadwell and Mason follow, and the memorials to Prior, Sharp, and Anstey ; then... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...Hotncr. On Gray's monument In Westminster Abbey are these lines: "No more the Grecian mure unrivalled reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay; She felt a Homer's flre in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." Col. Morse, 221 Third street, Washington.... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...it. The memorial, which was the work of John Bacon, the sculptor, bears the following lines : — " No more the Grecian Muse unrivall'd reigns To Britain...Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. Died July 30, 1771, aged 54." The stately monument of Matthew Prior, close by, is a sarcophagus surmounted... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...— No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay ! She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. Garrick's epitaph upon William Hogarth is the last I shall trouble you with : — Farewell ! great... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...his first biographer, in his epitaph equalled him with Pindar. Britain has known, says Mason, ' . . . a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.' The immense vogue of Pope and of his style of versification had at first prevented the frank re72 ESSAYS... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...— No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay ! She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. Garrick's epitaph upon William Hogarth is the last I shall trouble you with : — Farewell ! great... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...— No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay ! She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. Garrick's epitaph upon William Hogarth is the last I shall trouble you with : — Farewell ! great... | |
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No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. 
