 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
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 382 pages
...previous narration to lead you to it. — The two next lines in that ode are, 1 think, very good : Though, fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state." Bonnell Thornton had just published a burlesque Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, adapted to the ancient British... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...Paradise. No more ; where ignorance is bliss, "1" is folly to be wise. THE BARD. A FINDAE1C ODE. I. " 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...conquest of that emuilry, ordered all the Bards that fell into his hands to be put to death. I. 1. " RUIN seize. thee, ruthless King ! Confusion on thy...Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle slate. Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, Tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...put to death. I. 1. " ROIN seize thee, ruthless King ! Confusion on thy banners wait; Though faun'd 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 452 pages
...JOHNSON. From these two passages Mr. Gray seems to have formed the first stanza of his celebrated Ode : " Ruin seize thee, ruthless king ! " Confusion on thy...Though fann'd by conquest's crimson wing '• They mack the air with idle state." MALONE. 3 Away then, with good courage ; yet, I know, Our party may... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Children - 1821 - 304 pages
...Elate with his success, he ca*ta look of triumph upon Rosamond, and began in an heroic tone — " ' Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait; Thoug-h fann'd by Conquest's crimson tving, They mock the air in idle state; Helm, nor hawberk's twisted mail, Norev'n thy virtues, tyrant,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...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 state.' " ' Here let it be observed, that although his opinion of Gray's poetry was widely different from mine,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...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 state." Bonnell Thornton had just published a burlesque Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, adapted to the ancient British... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...rude hand defies, That Virtue lives when Beauty dies. THE BARD. A Pindaric Ode, GRAY. I.— 1. " Rum seize thee, ruthless King ! Confusion on thy banners...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,... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...exactly the same force and energy as in dramatic composition. Thus the sublime rage of Gray's Bard: Ruin seize thee, ruthless king, — Confusion on thy...banners wait ! Though fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, Tliey mock the air in idle state, Helm nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, can... | |
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