 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...Rhine ; A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd. And little eagles wave their wings in gold. 30 The medal faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages Dears each form ana name: In one short view subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 pages
...Rhine ; A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little Eagles wave their wings in gold. 30 The Medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through...name : In one short view subjected to our eye Gods, Emp'rors, Heroes, Sages, Beauties, lie. With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, 35 Th' inscription... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...Rhine ; A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold. The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through...eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie. With sharpen'd sight, pale antiquaries pore, The inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...Rhine , A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold. 30 The medal faithful to its charge of fame, Through...eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie. With sharpeii'd sight pale antiquaries pore, The inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue... | |
 | Silchester - 1850 - 82 pages
...been dug up here, on most of which the legends are entire, though the reverses are mostly different. The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through...name : In one short view subjected to our eye, Gods, emp'rors, heroes, sages, beauties lie. The most valuable coin* which has been discovered in the ruins... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - 1851 - 432 pages
...ruins here. For coins I care little, but we read their inscriptions ; as some old poet says : — " The Medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through...our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties lie ; With sharpened sight pale antiquaries pore, The inscription value — but the rust adore." We passed... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - 1851 - 466 pages
...ruins here. For coins I care little, but we read their inscriptions ; as some old poet says : — " The Medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through...our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties lie ; With sharpened sight pale antiquaries pore, The inscription value — but the rust adore." We passed... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...Rhine ; A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold. G\G]Gq2 G F With sharpen'd sight pale antiquaries pore, 'I'h' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue... | |
 | 1852 - 336 pages
...these humble but honest and incorruptible witnesses. As Pope has sung in his epistle to Addison, — " The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through...eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties lie." Addison, in the essay which occasioned these verses, has largely pointed out the benefits which have... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 684 pages
...roll'd; • And little eagles wave their wings in gold. The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Thro' climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, emp'rors, heroes, sages, beauties lie. With sharpen'd sight pale antiquaries pore, Th' inscription... | |
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The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie. 
