 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
 | 1867
...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 - 1867
...submit to fate. 171 Steel could the labour of the gods destrov, 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 ? ' But... | |
 | Alexander Pope - History - 1869
...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...confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. . What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hairs should feel, The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel? 1... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 364 pages
...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?' FROM... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - Literary Criticism - 1922 - 1011 pages
...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...confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel 51 But... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1994 - 99 pages
...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? CANTO... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring - Poetry - 1995 - 891 pages
...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, Pat Rogers - Poetry - 1998 - 226 pages
...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?' CANTO... | |
 | Henry Morley - Poetry - 2004 - 196 pages
...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 unresisting steel? CANTO... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 2006 - 737 pages
Features selections of the author's prose and poems, including the full texts of "The Dunciad," "The Rape of the Lock," and "Peri Bathous." | |
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