 | Homerus - 1720 - 284 pages
...dancers in a circle hound To the foft flute, and cittern's filver fotmd: 575 Thro' the fair ftreets, the matrons in a row, Stand in their porches, and enjoy the fhow. There, in the Forum fwarm a num'rous train : The fuhjeft of dehate, a townfman flain : One pleads... | |
 | Dionysius (of Halicarnassus.) - 1758 - 462 pages
...dancers in a circle bound, To the foft flute, and cittern s filler found : Through the fair Jlreets, the matrons in a row Stand in their porches, and enjoy the Jhow. Pope. And, again, in defcribing another Cretan band of dancers, that confuted of youths, and... | |
 | Homer - 1773 - 234 pages
...dancers, in a circle bound To the foft flute and cittern's filver found : Through the fair ftreets, the matrons, in a row, Stand in their porches, and enjoy the (how. There, in the forum fvvarm a r.um'rbus train : The fubjeft of debate, a towuiinun i! im : One... | |
 | Stéphanie Félicité comtesse de Genlis - 1785 - 308 pages
...dancers in a circle bound, " To the foft flute and cittern's filver found. " Through the fair flreets the matrons in a row, " Stand in their porches and enjoy the [how." ' POPE. " The fame pomp, proceflion, and mufic, are ftill in ufe. " Dancers, muficians, and... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 pages
...dancers in a circle bound To tjie foft flute, and cittern's (liver found : Through the fair ftreets, the matrons in a row Stand in their porches, and enjoy the Ihow. There, in the forum fwarm a numerous train, The fubject of debate, a townfman (lain: One pleads... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 902 pages
...dancers in a circle bound To the foft flute, and cittern's filver found : Through the fair ftreets, the matrons in a row Stand in their porches, and enjoy the (how. There, in the forum (warm a numerous train, The fubject of debate, a townfman (lain : One pleads... | |
 | John Shepherd - 1801 - 466 pages
...youthful dancers in a circle bound To the foft flute, and cittern's filver found. Thro' the fair ftreets, the matrons in a row, Stand in their porches, and enjoy the fhew. IL. xviii. V. 569. The Marriage proceffion of the Romans refembled that of the Greeks, and, like... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...dancers in a circle hound To the foft flute, and cittern's filvcr found ; [j7J Through the fair flreets, the matrons in a row Stand in their porches, and enjoy the (how. There, in the forum fwarni a numerous train, The fubjeñ nf debate, a townfman (lain: One pleads... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 424 pages
...hymeneal rite; Along the street the ncw-uiade brides are led, , With torches flaming, to the nuptial bed; The youthful dancers in a circle bound To the soft flute, and cittern's silver sound. POPE. that Vida was merely fanciful, when he supposed Virgil endeavouring to represent by uncommon... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 438 pages
...hymeneal rite ; Along the stretl the new made brides are led, With torches faming, to the nuptial bed: The youthful dancers in a circle bound To the soft flute and cithern's sihfr sound; Through the fair streets the matrons in a row Stand in (heir porchet, and enjoy... | |
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The image one of peace, and one of war. Here sacred pomp, and genial feast delight, And solemn dance, and hymeneal rite ; Along the street the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming, to the nuptial bed : The youthful dancers in a circle bound To... 
