| James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...gods ! The princes applaud with a furious joy, And the king seized a flambeau, with zeal to destroy Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy." o CHAPTER XIII. OF EPIC POETRY. y. What rank does the Epic hold in poetry ? A. It generally occupies... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...gods. The princes applaud, with a furious joy; And the king seiz'da flambeau, with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute,... | |
| Charles Astor Bristed - 1852 - 470 pages
...gods !" The princes applaud with a furious joy, And the King seiz'da flambeau with zeal to destroy : Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. SENATE-HOUSE EXAMINATION. WEDNESDAY, Jan. 1, 1845. 9. ..11£. [NB The Differential... | |
| Alan Houston, Steve Pincus - History - 2001 - 366 pages
...Handf The Princes applaud, with a furious Joy, And the king seyz'da Flambeau, with Zeal to destroy: Thais led the Way, To light him to his Prey, And. like another He}len, lir'd another Tray. (liues t3t-50l An alhtsion to Virgil's Aeueid, which Dryden completed translating... | |
| John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...gods. The princes applaud, with a furious joy, And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy;0 Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. 150 CHORUS And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way, To light him to... | |
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