 In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power...  The British anthology; or, Poetical library - Page 26by British anthology - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...strokes of the sublime, + Page 28, In consecrated earth. And on the holy hearth, The lars and lemurs moan with midnight plaint; In urns and altars round,...sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint ! Methinks we behold the priests interrupted in the middle of the secret ceremonies they were performing,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...strokes of the sublime. + Page 28. [In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The lars and lemurs moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamefls at their service quaint ! Methinks we behold the priests interrupted in the middle of the... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...[mourn. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, [plaint ; The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound...chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat. XXII. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, c 3 With that twicc-batter'd... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...of tangled thickets mourn. XXI. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars, and Lemures, moan with midnight plaint; In urns, and altars round,...While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat XXII. With that twice-batter'd God of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen and mother both,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...of tangled thickets mourn. XXI. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars, and Lemures, moan with midnight plaint; In urns, and altars round,...While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat XXII. With that twice-batter'd God of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen and mother both,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leavin" ODES. 287 With that twice-batter'd God of Palestine ; And mooned...mother both, ^ Now sits not girt with tapers holy shine ; f be Libyek Hammon shrinks his horn, In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Thammuz raourn. XXIII.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...twilight shade of tangled thickets In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the flam ens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat,, . . • JPeor and Baalim Forsake... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lémures moan with midnight plaint. In urns and altars round, . _ A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their...While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat. But Ovid tells a story of a gossiping nymph Lara, who having told Juno of her husband's amour with... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...hearth, [plaint ; The Lars, and Lemuros, moan with midnight In urns, and altars round, A drear nnd (lying imbs. Around th' adjoining brook, that purls along...a rock, Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, seal. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twit-e-batter'd god of Palestine; And mooned... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 pages
...mourn. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, [plaint ; The Lars, and Lemures, moan with midnight In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound...Heaven's queen and mother both, Now sits not girt with taper's holy shine ; The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn, In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Thammuz... | |
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