 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
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...noise. THE BARD. JL PINDARIC DDE.* I. 1. i Rulw seize thee, ruthless King I Confusion on thy hanners wait ; • Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle statc.f Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail,* Nor e'en thy virtues, Tyrant, shall avail * This Ode it... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...previous narration to lead you to it. — The two next lines in that Ode are, I think, very good : 1 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 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 itate .' " ' Here let it be observed, that although his opinion of Gray's poetry was widely different... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 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...fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air in idle state, Helm nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, can avail To save thy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far — but far above the great. THE BARD. А PINDARIC ODE. ' the box, and hover round the ring. Think what an...old, And once enclos'd in woman's beauteous mould shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears!'... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...from hence that it is a necessary support to the harmony of our Ode. ODE VI. THE BARD* PINDARIC. II " RUIN seize thee, ruthless King ! Confusion on thy...Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. " This Ode is founded on a tradition current in Wales, that Kdward the First, when he completed the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far — but far above the great. THE BARD. A PINDARIC ODE. eonquest's erimson wing, They moek the air with idle state. Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...conquest of thai country, ordered all the Bards that fell into his hands to be pat to death. 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... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1826 - 454 pages
...quotation; but the following fragments, which form its opening and ending, ought by no means to be omitted. Ruin seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy...wing, They mock the air with idle state ! Helm, nor hawberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant! shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...FROM THE MOST EMINENT POETS. BOOK V. PINDARIC, HORATIAN, AND OTHER ODES. THE BARD.* • J. 1. * Rum seize thee, ruthless king ! ? , Confusion on thy banners...Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle stats. Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret... | |
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