 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
 | Reformers - Reformation - 1885 - 488 pages
...they were, or have accomplished what they did. It was he, more than any anyone else, who " Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy vandals off the stage." And now, in leaving him, though we may differ in opinion as to the excellence of his character or the... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - Authors, English - 1886 - 632 pages
...construed to be good. A second deluge Learning thus o'er-ruo, And the Monks finished what the Goths begun ! At length Erasmus, that great injured name, (The Glory...Age, And drove those holy Vandals off the Stage." One life-long enemy, among the Zoiluses of the day, he provoked and immortalised by his satire. Dennis,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Bible - 1886 - 622 pages
...of true religion, 1 Pope expresses the popular view about Erasmus in the lines, " At length Krasmus, that great injured name, (The glory of the Priesthood...Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age And drove the holy Vandals off the stage." * See his note on the jntdendiu Inpms of the Master of the Sentences... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Bible - 1886 - 818 pages
...the spirituality of true religion, 1 Pope expresses the popular view about Erasmus in the lines, " At length Erasmus, that great injured name, (The glory...the shame,) Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous nge And drove the holy Vandals off the stage." - See his note on tin1, pudi-ndus kipfim of the Master... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 pages
...omitted these two : 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,3 And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see ! each muse, in Leo's golden days,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Birds - 1889 - 454 pages
...deserves. Surely execution is not confined to versification alone. What can be worse than this ? " At length Erasmus, that great, injured name, ^The...priesthood and the shame,) Stemmed the wild torrent of atrarbarous age, And drove those holy vandals off the stage." It would have been hard for Pope to have... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 590 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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Literature - 1890 - 434 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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1890 - 462 pages
...he 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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 434 pages
...deserves. Surely execution is not confined to versification alone. What can be worse than this ? " At length Erasmus, that great, injured name, (The...priesthood and the shame,) Stemmed the wild torrent of a harbarous age, And drove those holy vandals off the stage." It would have been hard for Pope to have... | |
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