| English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...obtain her love. ' Prisoner in Windsor, he recounteth hispkasure there passed. [Abridged from 54 lines.] So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor...Troy : Where each sweet place returns a taste full sower! The large green courts, where we were wont to hove, With eyes cast up into the maiden's tower,... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 468 pages
...Happy is he that can obtain her love. Prisoner in Windsor, he recounteth his pleasure there passed. So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor...a king's son my childish years did pass In greater feasts 3 than Priam's sons of Troy : Where each sweet place returns a taste full sower ! * The large... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 472 pages
...Happy is he that can obtain her love. Prisoner in Windsor, he recounteth his Pleasure there passed. So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor...a king's son my childish years did pass In greater feasts 3 than Priam's sons of Troy : Where each sweet place returns a taste full sower .'4 The large... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...care decays, and yet my sorrow springs. A PRISONER IN WINDSOR CASTLE, HE REFLECTS ON PAST HAPPINESS. So cruel prison how could betide, alas ! As proud...green courts, where we were wont to hove, With eyes upcast unto the maiden's tower, And easy sighs, such as folk draw in love. The stately seats, the ladies... | |
| Barry Cornwall - Poets, English - 1824 - 132 pages
...Windsor, he wrote some graceful and touching verses, recounting "his pleasure there passed" — " when I, in lust and joy. With a king's son my childish...Priam's sons of Troy ; Where each sweet place returns a tasteful sour, And the large green, where we were wont to rove With eyes cast up into the maiden's... | |
| 1824 - 762 pages
...he wrote some graceful and touching verses, recounting ' his pleasure there passed' — " ' when I, With a king's son my childish years did pass, In greater...Priam's sons of Troy ; Where each sweet place returns a tasteful sour, And the large green, where we were wont to rove With eyes cast up into the maiden's... | |
| Joseph Jean M.C. Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 450 pages
...describing Windsor, I will <juote the lines which he wrote during his captivity in the round tower. " So, cruel prison, how could betide, alas ! As proud...pass, In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy." * * * # In the situation of the poet, as Warton observes, nothing can be more natural than the reflection... | |
| Amédée Pichot - England - 1825 - 454 pages
...describing Windsor, I will quote the lines which he wrote during his captivity in the round tower. " So, cruel prison, how could betide, alas ! As proud...pass, In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy." * « * # In the situation of the poet, as Warton observes, nothing can be more natural than the reflection... | |
| Windsor (Berkshire, England) - 1825 - 238 pages
...as the peculiar features of this kingly fortress, that our readers will excuse the digression :— So cruel prison how could betide, alas ! As proud...childish years did pass In greater feast than Priam's son of Troy : Where each sweet place returns a place full sower! The large green courts, where we wen:... | |
| Katherine Thomson - 1826 - 536 pages
...Hertfordshire; the two former * Nott's Life of Surrey, p. 10. f Warion, Hist. Eng. Poet, vol. iii. p. 3. " So cruel prison how could betide, alas ! " As proud...I in lust and joy, " With a king's son my childish d.ivs did pass, " In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy." Surrey'* Poeiu, Noll's edit. 4to. p.... | |
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