 What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date, And monuments, like men, submit to fate ! Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal...  The Works of Alexander Pope Esq - Page 152by Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester) - 1751Full view - About this book
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...third canto : — Steel did the labors of the gods destroy, And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. Here he most impudently attributes the demolition of Dunkirk, not to the pleasure of her majesty or... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson - 1836
...submit to fate : Steel could the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel ?' CANTO... | |
 | Mrs. A. H. Nicholas - 1836
...to Fate. [date, Steel could the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial powers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. [feel What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should The conquering force of unresiated steel ? CANTO... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839
...submit to fate ! Steel could the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust the imperial towers , what you'd have it, What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel Tho conquering force of unresisted steel8 ? CANTO... | |
 | Poetry - 1841
...men, submit to Fate. Steel could the labor of the gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial powers ͥ4 What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel ? CANTO... | |
 | John Aikin - Poetry - 1843 - 807 pages
...men, submit to Fate. Steel could the labor of the gods destroy, And strike to dust th* imperial powers r rain, The laboring hind shall yoke the steer in vain ; But, if the threatening winds in tempest What wonder then, fair nymph .' thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel '. CANTO... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - 1845
...wrote, in his Rape of the LocK,— ' Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, ' And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy ; ' Steel could the works...confound, ' And hew triumphal arches to the ground. ' What wonder, then, fair nymph ! thy hair should feel ' The conquering force of unresisting steel... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847
...the third Canto : Steel did the labours of the gods destroy, And strike to dust tit imperial towers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. Here he most impudently attributes the demolition of Dunkirk, not to the pleasure of her majesty, or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847
...monuments, like men, submit to fate ! Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, 1 75 And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair Nymph ! thy hairs should feel The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - History - 1849
...submit to fate ! Steel could the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel " ? CANTO... | |
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