 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
 | William Wordsworth, John Aikin, John Frost - 1852
...men, submit to Fate. Steel could the labor of the gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial powers round The bended twigs take root, and daughters What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel ? CANTO... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854
...submit to fate ! Steel could the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust th' 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 ? " 1... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856
...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 1 CANTO... | |
 | George Moody - History - 1857
...Каре of the Lock." Steel could 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 triumphant arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph, thy hairs should feel The conquering... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1859 - 486 pages
...to pitying Heaven are cast, When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last. Again : Steel couUl the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. Again : , She sees, and trembles at th' approaching ill, Just ill the jaws of ruin, and codille. Again... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Literary Criticism - 1860
...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 sho-iM foe The conquering force of unresisted steel ?"^ CANTO... | |
 | William Russell Smith - 1860 - 260 pages
...men, submit to fate; Steel could the labor of the gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial towers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph ! my hair should feel The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel f " CHAPTER... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - History - 1861
...submit to fate. Steel could the labours 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 unresisting steel ?... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863
...submit to fate ! Steel could the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust th' 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 ? " 1... | |
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