Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare, Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast: Close by the regal chair Fell thirst and famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse... The Poetical Works - Page 23by Thomas Gray - 1826 - 134 pagesFull view - About this book
| England - 1831 - 1044 pages
...TICKLER desolate. TICKLER. Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare ! Robb'd of a goose, I yet may share the feast. Close by the regal chair,...Famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Ambrose — a goose !— a goose ! — my kingdom for a goose,— and, Tappie ! pot o' pota ! SHEPHERD.... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...grim repose, expects his evening prey. " Fill high the sparkling bowl, " The rich repast prepare ; " Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast : " Close...Lance to lance, and horse to horse ! " Long years of havoc urge their destin'd course; " And through the kindred squadrons mow their way. " Ye towers of... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...repose, expects his evening-prey II. 3. " * Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare, Reft of a crown he yet may share the feast : Close...smile upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of b battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse ? Long years of havoc urge their destin'd course,... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...are told by Archbishop Scroop and the confederate Lords in their manifesto, by Thomas of Walsingham, and all the older writers, was starved to death. The...and horse to horse ? Long years of havock urge their destin'd course, And through the kindred squadrons mow their way. Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...zephyr blows] Magnificence of Richard the Second's reign. See Froissart, and other contemporary writers. Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast : Close...and horse to horse? Long years of havock urge their destin'd course, And through the kindred squadrons mow their way. Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...in grim repose, expects his eveningprey. " ' Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare : Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast : Close...their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle bray f , * Death of that king, abandoned by his children, and even robbed in his last moments by his courtiers... | |
| English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...grim repose, expects his ev'ning prey. II 3. " Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare, Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast : Close...Famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. L Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse ; Long years of havock urge their... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...grim repose, expects his evening prey. n. 3. ' Fill high the sparkling bowl,} The rich repast prepare, Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast .Close by the regal chair Fell Thirst and Famine scowl A haleful smile upon their haffled Guest. Heard ye the din of hattle bray,§ Lance to lance, and horse... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...grim repose, expects his evening-prey. II. 3. {Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare ; Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast : Close...smile upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of Jbattle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse ? Long years of havock urge their destined course,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...hush'd in grim repose .expects hiseveningprey. " Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare ; nd each wish resign'd ; Labour and rest that equal...weep;" Desires compos'd, affections ever even ; Tears ofbattle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse 1 Long years of havoc urge their destin'd course,... | |
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