 Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her withered bays; Rome's ancient genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust,...  Savonarola, Erasmus, and Other Essays - Page 116by Henry Hart Milman - 1870 - 500 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Nichol - English language - 1893 - 264 pages
...great name hath its root in the dead body." (26) " Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing." (27) "The glory of the priesthood and the shame Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age." (28) " I do the most that friendship can, I hate the viceroy, love the man." (29) "That star that at... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...construed to be good ; A second deluge learning thus o'errun, And the monks flnish'd what the Goths begun. At length Erasmus, that great injured name, (The glory of the priesthood and the shame !) Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...to be good ; 690 A second deluge learning thus o'errun, And the monks finished what the Goths begun. At length Erasmus, that great injured name (The glory...barbarous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see ! each muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her withered bays ; Rome's... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 630 pages
...Letters revived when the study of classical models again gave an impulse and supplied a guidance. '•' At length Erasmus, that great injured name, The glory of the priesthood and their shame, Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove these holy Vandals off the stage."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1896 - 136 pages
...length Erasmus^ that great injured name, ("The if lorv of the- priesthood and the shame !) Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see ! each Muse in Leo's golden days Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays ; Rome's... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Bible - 1897 - 388 pages
...Heidelberg he had to do so secretly, and he was perpetually worried by suspicious ignorance. 14 At last Erasmus, that great injured name, The glory of the...Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age And drove the holy Vandals off the stage. He complained that ' men and women chattered like parrots the Psalms... | |
 | John Scott Clark - American poetry - 1900 - 886 pages
...hence for ancient rules a just esteem ; To copy nature is to copy them." — Essay on Criticism. " At length Erasmus, that great injured name, (The glory...barbarous age, And drove those holy vandals off the stage. But see ! each Muse, in LEO'S golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her withered bays. Rome's... | |
 | 1902 - 698 pages
...against Poetry" refers to Butler as : The glory and the scandal of the age. He was imitated by Pope : At length Erasmus, that great injured name, The glory of the priesthood and the shame. And by Young: Of some for glory such the boundless rage, That they're the blackest scandal of the age.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 520 pages
...versification alone. What can be worse than this ? "At length Erasmus, that great, injured name(The glory of the priesthood and the shame), Stemmed the...barbarous age, And drove those holy vandals off the stage. ' ' It would have been hard for Pope to have found a prettier piece of confusion in any of the small... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 174 pages
...finished what the Goths begun. At length Erasmus, that great injured name, 1 Dionysius of Halicarnastos. (The glory of the priesthood, and the shame!) Stemmed...barbarous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see! each muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her withered bays, Rome's... | |
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