How much thy years excel In arts of counsel, and in speaking well! O would the gods, in love to Greece, decree But ten such sages as they grant in thee; Such wisdom soon should Priam's force destroy, And soon should fall the haughty towers of Troy! The Annual Biography and Obituary - Página 1231819Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| John Bell - 1807 - 472 páginas
...him the king: ' How much thy years excel ' In arts of counsel, and in speaking well ! 441 ' O »ould the gods, in love to Greece, decree ' But ten such sages as they grant in thee; ' Such wisdom soon should Priam's force destroy, ' And soon should fall the haughty Tow'rs of... | |
| Homerus - 1808 - 574 páginas
...men helow. To him the king : how much thy years excel 440 In arts of council, and in speaking well ! O would the Gods, in love to Greece, decree But ten such sages as they grant in thee ; Such wisdom soon should Priam's force destroy, And soon should fall the hanghty towers of Troy... | |
| John Black - 1810 - 528 páginas
...u'fi T* M rti% iifi'vrtH vroA<; vQuiuaio UntxTtf, Xtffii vtp' iftirtypirn aAovnt n in^ ioftin «.* O would the Gods, in love to Greece, decree But ten such sages, as they grant in thee ! Such wisdom soon should Priam's force destroy, And soon should fall the haughty towers of Troy.f... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 páginas
...below." To him the king : " How much thy years excel In arts of council, and in sneaking well ? О would the gods, in love to Greece, decree But ten such sages as they grant in thee ; Such wisdom soon should Priam's force destroy, And soon shall fall the haughty towers of Troy... | |
| sir Thomas Bernard (bart.) - 1813 - 214 páginas
...the death of Solomon. Need I, Mr. Lyttelton, to one of your scale of intellect, observe, that with civilised man it is counsel not force, mind not body,...that must govern. Agamemnon in his speech to the aged NESTOU, did not wish for the athletic strength of youth, but for the experienced wisdom of age, to... | |
| 1813 - 350 páginas
...men below.' To him the king: ' How much thy years excel In arts of counsel, and in speaking well I O would the gods, in love to Greece, decree But ten such sages as they grant in thee ; Such wisdom soon should Priam's force destroy, And soon should fall the haughty towers of Troy!... | |
| 1816 - 654 páginas
...followed the death of Solomon. Need I, Mr. Lyttelton, to one of your scale of intellect, observe that with civilised man, it is counsel not force, mind not body,...Greece, decree But ten such sages as they grant in thee I Such wisdom soon should Priam's force destroy, And soon should fall the haughty towers of Troy.... | |
| 1816 - 660 páginas
...followed the death of Solomon. Need I, Mr. Lyttelton, to one of your scale of intellect, observe that with civilised man, it is counsel not force, mind not body,...love to Greece, decree But ten such sages as they erant in thee ! Such wisdom soon should ftiam's force destroy, And soon should fall the haughty towers... | |
| Sir Thomas Bernard - 1818 - 292 páginas
...death of Solomon. Need I, Mr. Lyttelton, to oneof your scale of intellect, observe that with civilized man, it is counsel not force, mind not body, that...Greece, decree But ten such sages as they grant in thee ! Such wisdom soon should Priam's force destroy, And soon should fall the haughty towers of Troy.... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 304 páginas
...men below.' To him the king—' How much thy years excel In arts of counsel, and in speaking well! O would the gods, in love to Greece, decree But ten such sages as they grant in thee; Such wisdom soon should Priam's force destroy, And soon should fall the haughty towers of Troy... | |
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