 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 109by Henry Hart Milman - 1870 - 500 pagesFull view - About this book
 | North American review - 1871 - 494 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... | |
 | The North American Review.VOL.CXII. - 1871 - 506 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 544 pages
...ON CRITICISM. A second deluge learning thus o'er-run, And the monks finished what the Goths begun.1 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1889 - 574 pages
...man of letters, was the great object of his admiration. In the ' Essay on Criticism ' he calls him " That great injured name, The glory of the priesthood and the shame," and he wrote to Caryll with reference to the allusion : " I will set before me that excellent example... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...to be good ; •A second deluge Learning thus o'crrun, And the Monks finish'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... | |
 | Bernard Bigsby - English language - 1874 - 178 pages
...language in the following : He was so much skilled in the empire of the oar, that few could excel him. At length Erasmus, that great injured name (The glory of the priesthood and the shame), Curbed the wild torrent of a barb'rous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. On the wide... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1874 - 448 pages
...deserves. Surely execution is not confined to versification alone. What can be worse than this ] '• At length Erasmus, that great, injured name, (The glory of the priesthood and the shape,) Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy vandals off the stage." It... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Birds - 1876 - 454 pages
...versification alone. What can be worse than this ? '• At length Erasmus, that great, injured name, iThe glory of the priesthood and the shame,) Stemmed 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... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...to be good: 690 A second deluge learning thus o'errun : And the monks finish'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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 656 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...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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