 Perching on the sceptred hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With ruffled plumes, and flagging wing : Quench'd in dark clouds of slumber lie The terror of his beak, and lightnings of his eye.  Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 40by Thomas Gray - 1775 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Literature - 1789 - 454 pages
...command. Perching on the fcept'red hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king' j With raffled plumes, and flagging wing : Quench'd in dark clouds...The terror of his beak, and light'nings of his eye,; I. 3. Thee the voice, the dance, obey. Temper'd to they warbled lay . . ? O'er Idalia's Velvet-green... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 372 pages
...are borrowed from the firft Pythian of Pindar. •] This is a faint imitation of fome incomparable lines in the fame Ode. Of Of Jove, thy magic lulls...clouds of flumber lie The terror of his beak, and lightning of his eye. I- 3* Thee the voice, the dance, obey, Temper'd to thy warbled lay, O'er Idalia's... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...Jove, thy magic lulls the fcather'd king , With ruffled plumes aud flagging wing: D d Q,ue "-l> к П. Quench'd in dark clouds of flumber lie The terror of his beak, and lightnings oí his eye. I. 3. Thee the voice, the dance obey, Tern peí 'd to thy warbled lay. O'er Id.iiia's... | |
 | William Gilpin - Landscape drawing - 1792 - 186 pages
...hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feathered king With ruffled plumes, and flagging wing : Quenched in dark clouds of flumber lie The terror of his beak, and lightening of his eye. Akenfide's pidure of him, in his hymn to the Naiads, is rather a little ftiffly... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1793 - 274 pages
...histhirfly lance at »hy command. Perching on the fceprer'd hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the, fewher'd king With ruffled plumes, and flagging wing : Quench'd in dark clouds of flumber lie Ths terror of his beak, and lightning of his eye. E a The' Thee the voice, the dance obey, Tempcr'd... | |
 | 1794 - 542 pages
..."harmonious fpiings ;" " flream of mu/ic ; &c. В Ь 2 " Perching " Perching on the fcepter'd hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king' With ruffled plumes, and Bagging wing: Quench'd in dark clouds of (lumber lie The terror of his beak, and light'nirg of his... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1796 - 372 pages
...this verfe in his memory, when he wrote the exordium of his firft pindaric : QueneVd in dark clauds of flumber lie .. , The terror of his beak, and light'nings of his tye. Ver. 60.] Thus Milton alfo, in imitation of the ancients* t-ycidas, verfe 1 1 . Who would not... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...thirfty lance at thy command. Perching on the fceptred hand Of Jove, thy magic lui h the feathcr'd king With ruffled plumes, and flagging wing : Quench'd in dark clouds of number lie The terror of his beak, and lightning of his eye I- 3Thee the voice, the dance obey, Temper'd... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1798 - 130 pages
...fury of his car, And dropp'd his thirfty lance at thy command : Perching on the fceptred hand { *o Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With ruffled plumes and ftagging wing ; as ufual with Pindar, are here united. The various fources of poetry, which gives life... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...(t) Perching on the sceptred hand. This is a weak imitation of some beautiful lines in the same ode. Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With ruffled...plumes and flagging wing: Quench'd in dark clouds of slumber lie The terror of his beak, and lightnings of his eye. I. 3. Thee the voice, the dance, obey... | |
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