 | Thomas Gray - 1858 - Страниц: 196
...Great. THE BARD. A Pindaric Ode. I. i. seize thee, ruthless King ! Confusion on thy banners wait ; Tho' 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - Страниц: 960
...previous narration to lead you to it. The two next lines in that Ode »re, I think, very good : — ' controversy ' between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and " * Here let it be observed, that although his opinion of Gray's poetry was widely different from mine,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - Страниц: 778
...abrupt execration plunges the rea-ler into that sudden, fenrfnl perplexity which li drcifp«4 Tliough fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail,1 Nor e'en thy virtues, Tyrant, shall nvail To save thy secret soul... | |
 | James Thomson - 1861 - Страниц: 480
...the great. * Milton. f Pindar. 384 THE BARD. PINDARIC.* " Ruin seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy banners wait, 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... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - Страниц: 532
...XVI EXTRACTS PROM GRAl's 1!AKJ>. " Rum seize thee, ruthless 1 King! Confusion on thy banners wait 1 Though fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state 1 Helm nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor even thy virtues, tyrant 1 shall avail To save thy secret soul... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1863 - Страниц: 552
...to have characterized the language of the bard himself. " Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait ! Though fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. Helm, or hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - Страниц: 562
...FRANCIS" Horace. — Book IV. Ode 12. MOCK— MOCKING.— Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait, Though, fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. GRAY.— The Bard, Line 1. Mocking the air with colours idly spread. SHAESPERE. — King John, Act... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - Страниц: 304
...this species of poetry, is full of abrupt energy : — " Ruin seize thee, ruthless King ! Confusion on thy banners wait ! Though, fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state." Now here I cannot refrain from giving a specimen of Dr. Johnson's candid and discriminating criticism... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - Страниц: 788
...throvrn, a* without saf exception to place It at the head of lyric poetry."— Drake'* Literary Hmn. Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, 1 Nor e'en thy virtues, Tyrant, slmll avail To save thy secret soul... | |
 | 1863 - Страниц: 438
...THE BARD Pindaric OJc ' T3 UIN seize thee, ruthless King ! -LV Confusion on thy banners wait ! Tho' 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... | |
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Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail • To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears... 
