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" 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 [by sir W. Scott]. - Page 276
by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1816
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 51

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....
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Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk

Walter Scott - 1816 - 488 pages
...of the hamlets, deserted by such of the terrified inhabitants as were able to fly, and tenanted .j only by the aged and disabled, reminded me of the...had shared the fate of the rest of the hamlet. As helooked around him he perceived that he was watched from behind the bushes by two or three children,...
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Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk

Walter Scott - 1816 - 294 pages
...as were able to fly, and tenanted only by the aged and disabled, reminded me of the beautiful 'ines describing the march of a conqueror, — " Amazement...superior appearance, but which had shared the fate of •.he rest of the hamlet. As he looked around him he perceived that he was watched from behind the...
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Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk

Walter Scott - 1816 - 534 pages
...destroyed, windows dashed in, doors torn down, and now and then a burnt cottage, joined with the state of the hamlets, deserted by such of the terrified inhabitants...combined, And Sorrow's faded form and Solitude behind." 4 !* • A friend of mine met with an interesting adventure at one of these deserted villages. He had...
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Readings on Poetry

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...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

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,...
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The Poetical Works

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)...
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Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain ...

John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 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.' " Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear ; And gorgeous dames and statesmen...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Paul's letters to ...

Walter Scott - 1829 - 376 pages
...destroyed, windows dashed in, doors torn down, and now and then a burnt cottage, joined with the state of the hamlets, deserted by such of the terrified inhabitants...garden of a cottage of somewhat a superior appearance, bat which bad shared the fate of the rest of .the hamlet. As he looked around him, he perceived that...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...From thee be born, (3) who o'er thy country hangs The scouge of Heaven ! What terrors round him wait! so may be applied equally to himself: Prevailing poet, whose undonbting minrt Believed th 1 Mighty Victor, mighty Lord. Low (4) on his funeral couch he lies I No pitying heart, no eve, afford...
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