 Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement...  Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk - Page 154by Walter Scott - 1816 - 468 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1830 - 622 pages
...fall behind Fright? Or why should not all the three walk abreast ? Wo have read of a hero who had ' Amazement in his van, with Flight combined, And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind.' Gray, we suspect, could have given a reason for disposing the allegorical attendants of Edward thus.... | |
 | 1809 - 688 pages
...will be marked with, blood ! moat awful pestilence ! Tbe icourg* of Heartu ! What terrors round him Amazement in his van, with Flight combined ; And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behiad! That he will meet with i brave resistance wr doubt not : will it be PROLONGED as well as brave... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1816 - 528 pages
...as were able to fly, and tenanted only by the aged and disabled, reminded me of the beautiful lines describing the march of a conqueror, — Amazement...superior appearance, but which had shared the fate of the rest of the hamlet. As he looked around him he perceived that he was watched from behind the bushes... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 500 pages
...as were able to fly, and tenanted only by the aged and disabled, reminded me of the beautiful lines describing the march of a conqueror, — " Amazement...superior appearance, but which had shared the fate of the rest of the hamlet. As he looked around him he perceived that he was watched from behind the bushes... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1816 - 262 pages
...From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van with flight combined, •' '. And sorrow's faded form and solitude behind." •• The prophecy of the Bard now begins. He desires that the year and night may be marked as the... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 pages
...From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of Heaven ; what terrors round him wait ; Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And Sorrow's faded form, and SoKtude behind. ANT. 2. victor Mighty Conqu'ror, mighty Lord, his Low on the funeral couch he lies... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 pages
...From thee be born' 6 , who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of Heaven. What Terrors round him wait! Amazement in his van, with Flight combined, And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind. II. 2. ' Mighty Victor, mighty Lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies '•'! 13 See the Norwegian ode,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pages
...From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of Heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind. Ver. 48. And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line] See the Norwegian Ode (the Fatal Sisters)... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 588 pages
...as were able to fly, and tenanted only by the aged and disabled, reminded me of the beautiful lines describing the march of a conqueror,— " Amazement...superior appearance, but which had shared the fate of the rest of the hamlet. As he looked around him, he perceived that he was watched from behind the bushes... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 538 pages
...as were able to fly, and tenanted only by the aged and disabled, reminded me of the beautiful lines describing the march of a conqueror, — " Amazement...superior appearance, but which had shared the fate of the rest of the hamlet. As he looked around him, he perceived that he was watched from behind the bushes... | |
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