 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1855 - 442 страници
...Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that llie rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy...living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And... | |
 | 1855 - 1416 страници
...— • Perchance in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed. Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.' Ami what i.« il»' obvious moral from these well known lines? What but this, — that give the requisite... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1855 - 444 страници
...once pregnant with celestial fire1 ; | Hands that the rod of em'pire might have sway'dv, | Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre,. | 'But knowledge to their eyes her ample page', | Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll, ; | Chill penury repress'd- their noble rage',... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1856 - 472 страници
...contingency, " Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid, Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked...living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll, Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And... | |
 | Orson Scott Card - 2009 - 353 страници
...I teach you to see in yourselves what Gray saw? Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But she doubted that any of these ordinary souls in Hatrack River were really mute, inglorious Miltons.... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 страници
...laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 страници
...by death: Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. . . . (45-48) The conditions preventing such accomplishment must obtain equally for the living peasants... | |
 | 1996 - 160 страници
...Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre; But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 страници
...distinguish: Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. "Heart," in this resplendently troped quatrain, is conventional metonymy for "spirit" or "being;" but... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 страници
...of Death? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial f1re; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked...living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze... | |
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Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre ; But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. 
