 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1847 - 276 pages
...far above the Great. ODE VI. THE BARD. Pindaric. I. 1. " 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...all the Bards that fell into his hands to Le put to death. 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...TVrv teem Co hare been some kind of personal pique jutuuon «nd Graf, for Mr. Norton Nicholls (ante. ' 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,... | |
 | James Augustus Hessey - 1849 - 216 pages
...STREAM OF BRITISH HISTORY FROM EDWARD I. TO ELIZABETH. " 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1893 - 688 pages
...misquotation from 'The Bard," by Gray :— Ruin seize thee ruthless king, Confu-ion on thy banners wait Tho' fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. WW DAVIES. NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. 'HE second volume of Mr. Wheatley's ideal edition of >epys carries the... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...Of war's vast art, was to this hermit known, THE BARD, " 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 Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...drew an angel down ! XVI. — EXTRACTS FROM GRAY S RAUD. " RUIN seize thee, ruthless1 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 even thy virtues, tyrant 1 shall avail To save thy secret soul... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...see. SELECTIONS FROM GRAY. THE BAED. A PINDARIC ODE. I. " 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1852 - 1170 pages
...grand and terrible exordium : " Ruin seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy banners wait I 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 virtue*. Tyrant, shall arail To save thy secret soul... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...'scape', Heaven' forgive him too. THE WELSH BARD CURSING EDWARD I. Ruin seize the ruthless king, Confusion on thy banners wait ; Though fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state ! Nor helm nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall prevail, To shield thy 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... 
