 Though fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, Tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears...  The Cottager's monthly visitor - Page 271823Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 lehte
...to bo put to death.] ' Ruin seize thee, ruthless king, Confusion on thy banners wait ; Though fanned and Hoods ; Had built a bower upon the green, Ая...been An infant of the woods. Beneath her father's shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 lehte
...Pindar. PindaricS •RUIN seize thee, ruthless king t Confusion on thy banners wait ! Though fannM by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. Helm, or hauberk'at twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 lehte
...next Sunday night, mitl I don't get choked in the trial, Sally Jones will hear thunder ! THE BARD. " RUIN seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy...idle state. Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor even thy virtues, tyrant ! shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 lehte
...PINDARIC ODE.1 I. 1. " RUIN seize thee, ruthless King ! Confusion on thy banners wait ! Though fanned by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air -with...hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears... | |
 | 1846 - 436 lehte
...to be put to death. " RUIN seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy banners wait ! Though fanned by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with...hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail THE BARD. To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 lehte
...no previous narration to lead you to it. — The two next lines in that ode are, I think, very good: •Though fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state1.' " Here let it be observed, that although his opinion of Gray's poetry was widely different... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1847 - 276 lehte
...vulgar fate ; Beneath the Good how far—but far above the Great. ODE VI. THE BARD. Pindaric. I. 1. " RUIN seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners...hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, Tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1847 - 272 lehte
...Elate with this success, fe cast a look of triumph upon Rosamond, ai& began in an heroic tone — " ' Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait ; Though fann'd by conquet's crimson wing, They mock the air in idle state; Helm, nor hawberk's twisted mail, Nor ev'n... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 lehte
...completed the conquest of that country, ordered all the Bards that fell into his hands to Le put to death. Ruin seize thee, ruthless King ! Confusion on thy...hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, Tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 lehte
...TVrv teem Co hare been some kind of personal pique jutuuon «nd Graf, for Mr. Norton Nicholls (ante. ' Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state."" Here let it be observed, that although his opinion of Gray's poetry was widely different from mine,... | |
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