 The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name: In one short view subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie. With sharpen'd sight pale antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the...  The Arminian Magazine: Consisting of Extracts and Original Treatises on ... - Page 52by John Wesley - 1787Full view - About this book
 | 1852 - 336 pages
...these humble but honest and incorruptible witnesses. As Pope has sung in his epistle to Addison, — " The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties lie." Addison, in the essay... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 684 pages
...confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile and Rhine : A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd ; And little eagles wave their wings in gold. The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Thro' climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, cmp'rors,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 684 pages
...And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile and Rhine : A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd; • And little eagles wave their wings in gold. The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Thro' climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, emp'rors,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 596 pages
...scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile and Rhine : A small Euphrates through the piece is rolled ; And little...Through climes and ages bears each form and name In one short view, subjected to our eye, Grods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties lie. 'With sharpened sight... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 688 pages
...confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile and Bhiue : A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd ; And little eagles wave their wings in gold. The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Thro' climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, cmp'rors,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 pages
...27 And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine ; A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold. The medal,...climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view subjected to our eye Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie. With sharpen'd sight,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...a distant country. (3) Oive to Titus, &c. — i, e. mistake a statue of Vespasian for one of Titus. The Medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties lie. With sharpened sight... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1858 - 486 pages
...grandson Artaxerxes Longimanus, as we have before noticed, (see note p. 209.) The lines of Pope, " The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name," may be fairly quoted here in support of the opinion that the author of the Persian Daric was a Darius... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine: A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold. The medal,...Through climes and ages bears each form and name: In one short view subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie. With sharpen'd sight... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1860 - 292 pages
...confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile and Rhine ; 125 A small Euphrates through the piece i» rolled ; And little eagles wave their wings in gold....climes and ages bears each form and name ; In one short view, subjected to the eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie." The Pembroke and the... | |
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