See the grisly texture grow, ("Tis of human entrails made,) And the weights, that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head. Shafts for shuttles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along Sword, that once a Monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and... Fraser's Magazine - Page 4841846Full view - About this book
| English poets - 1790 - 372 pages
...RIG. f The nolle of battle hurtled in the air. SHAKESPEARE'S JVL.CXSAR, Shaft* Shafts for fhuttles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along ; Sword, that once a monarch bore, "Keep the tiffue clofe and ftrong. Mifta black, terrific maid, Sangrida, and Hilda fee, Join the wayward work... | |
| History - 1791 - 634 pages
...entrails made), And the weigh», that play below, Each a gafping warrior's head. Shafts for inutiles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along. Sword, that once a monarch bore. Keep the tiffue clofe and ftrong. Mifta, black, terrific Maid, Sangrida, and Hilda fee, Join the wayward work... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...Wearing many a foldicr's doom, Orkney's woe, and Handler's bane. Sec the grifly texture grow ! ('Tis of human entrails made) And the weights that play below, Each a gafping warrior's head. Shafts for Ihuttlcs, dipt in tore, Shoot the trembling cords along : Sword,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...Weaving many a foldier's doom, Orkney's woe, and Randvcr's bane, See the grifly texture grow ! ('Tis of human entrails made) And the weights that play below, Each a gafpiug warrior's head. Shafts for fhuttles dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling chords along : Sword... | |
| T AGERTON - 1794 - 390 pages
...griefly texture grow, ('Tis of human entrails made,) IO And the weights, that play below, Each a gafping Warrior's head. Shafts for Shuttles, dipt in gore,...trembling cords along. Sword, that once a Monarch bore, 15 Keep the tiflue clofe and ftrong. in Scotland, faw at a dilt.incc, a number of pcrfons on horfe.... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...Weaving many a foldier's doom, Orkney's woe, and Randver's bane. Sec the grifly texture grow! ('Tis of human entrails made) And the weights that play below. Each a gafping warrior's head. Shafts for (buttles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along : Sword,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1797 - 188 pages
...Weaving many a foldier's doom Orkney's wo and Randver's bane. . % See the grifly texture grow, ('Tis of human entrails made ) And the weights that play below Each a gafpiwg warriour's head. 12 LES FATALES Sœuas. L'original de cette picce imitée Je la langue Norfi... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 428 pages
...very tremendous one in Gray's eighth Ode, The Fatal Sifter* : " See the grifly texture grow, ('Tis of human entrails made,) And the weights that play below, Each a gafping warrior's head !" Which T have heard critics of weak nerves, and affe&ed fenfibility, complain... | |
| Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1798 - 130 pages
...entrails made,) Ar.d the weights that play below Fach a gafping warrior's head. 12 Shafts for fhuttles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along: Sword, that once a monarch bore^ Keep the tiftue clofe and ftrong, 1 6 2Jotc. — The Valkyriur were female divinities, feryants of Odin (or... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...Weaving many a Soldier's doom, Orkney's woe, and Randver's bane. See the grisly texture grow ! ('Tis of human entrails made) And the weights, that play below, Each a gasping Warrior's head. (b) Iron sleet of arrowy shower. How quick they whcel'd, and, flying, behind them she Sharp sleet of... | |
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