 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...  A plain and short history of England, letters - Page 44by George Davys (bp. of Peterborough.) - 1870Full view - About this book
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...to be put to death. " RUIN seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy banners wait ! Though fanned 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 THE BARD. To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...PINDARIC ODE. I. 1. "RuiN seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait; Though, fanned by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with 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,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...vulgar fate, Beneath the Good how far—but far above th« Great. THE BAED. A PINDARIC ODE. 7 I. 1. " RUIN seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait; Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, 8 Nor e'en thy virtues, Tyrant, shall avail They mock the air with... | |
 | James White - Great Britain - 1855 - 308 pages
...king in one of the defiles of Snowdon, and thus addresses him : — " Ruin seize thee, ruthless king I Confusion on thy banners wait ! Though fann'd by Conquest's...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,... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 342 pages
...only to mean what you say, but also to perform what you promise. XIX. THE WARRIOR KING. AD 1272-1307. Ruin seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy...conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. Not helm nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor ev'n thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...to be put to death. " Rum seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy banners wait ! Though fanned by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. Helm nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shjll avail THE BARD. To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...great. THE BARD 1754-57 1757 "Ruin seize thee, ruthless King!1 Confusion8 on thy banners wait ; Tho' beams, and heaven is overflowed. Rain-awakened flowers, All that eve 5 Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul... | |
 | Frederick Parkes Weber - 1918 - 850 pages
...Famine, and Pestilence. On the corresponding literary side one might compare the following : — " Ruin seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy...crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state." (Thomas Gray, The Bard, I. i. line 1.) Then, there is also the well-known picture by Franz von Stuck... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 412 pages
...great. THE BARD I. i *Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait; Though fanned by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Great Britain - 1919 - 762 pages
...— MALONE: From these two passages Gray seems to have formed the first stanza of his celebrated Ode: 'Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy...conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state.' 77. idlely] WALKER (Vers., p. 14) notes that this word is frequently so spelt in the Folio, 'even when... | |
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