 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
 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 pages
...that " saw learning fall and Rome," when tyranny enslaved the body and superstition the mind, till — At length Erasmus, that great injured name, (The glory...priesthood and the shame !) Stemmed the wild torrent of a barb'rous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. The poet passes on to the golden days of... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - Authors, English - 1917 - 690 pages
...Kipling's "The 1485-1509 a JW end. Wrong Thing." CHAPTER VIII A CENTURY OF EXPANSION (1500-1600) " Erasmus, that great injured name, The glory of the priesthood and the shame." — Pope. " ' Utopia,' the one work by More which still lives in all the freshness of youth." — TM... | |
 | Preserved Smith - Philosophy, Medieval - 1923 - 524 pages
...of weak character. When Alexander Pope had told of the arts lost during the Middle Ages, he added;2 At length Erasmus, that great injured name, (The glory...priesthood and the shame!) Stemmed the wild torrent of a barb'rous age, / And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. \_A century later the great French Catholic... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...to be good; 690 A second deluge learning thus o'errun, And the monks finished what the Goths begun. those you seek, It were a journey like the path to...you find them. Lady. Gentle villager, What readies barb'rous age, 695 And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see! each muse in Leo's golden days... | |
 | Essex (England) - 1897 - 282 pages
...herbs and a pure conscience, than the stalled ox and infamy." In this respect he somewhat resembled Erasmus. That great injured name, The glory of the priesthood and the shame. The late Abraham Hayward, a keen portrait-painter of character, and who, in his way, became as great... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...be good ; 690 A second deluge learning thus o'er-run, And the monks finished what the Goths begun. At length Erasmus, that great injured name, (The glory...priesthood, and the shame!) Stemmed the wild torrent of a barb'rous age, And drove those holy vandals off the stage. But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days,39... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...to be good; 690 A second deluge learning thus o'er-run, And the monks finished what the Goths begun. At length Erasmus, that great, injured name, (The...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... | |
 | Igor M. Diakonoff - History - 1999 - 372 pages
...clerics but also among educated laymen. British poet, Alexander Pope, who said that Erasmus 'stemm'd the wild torrent of a barbarous age. And drove those holy Vandals off the stage.' Besides his scholarly works, Erasmus is famous for his satire Praise of Folly and other writings important... | |
 | Clare Haynes - Art - 2006 - 252 pages
...construed to be good; A second deluge learning thus o'er run, And the monks finished what the Goths begun. At length Erasmus, that great, injured name, (The...priesthood, and the shame!) Stemmed the wild torrent of a barborous age, And drove those holy vandals off the stage. But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days,... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1871 - 498 pages
...deserves. Surely execution is not confined to versification alone. What can be worse than this ? " At length Erasmus, that great, injured name, (The...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 authors... | |
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