| 1832 - 1000 trang
...of cold-hearted men, of extravagance and excitement? Let these lively laughing Christians beware 1 " Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While,...trim the gilded vessel goes ; Youth on the prow, and ploaeure on the holm : Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects... | |
| James Montgomery - 1833 - 368 trang
...Progress of Poesy. Where can measures more noble than the foregoing be found in any modern tongue 1 " Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, •...Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey." It would be idle to descant on the diction or imagery... | |
| James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 trang
...Where can measures more noble than the foregoing be found in any modern tongue ? " Fair laughs the mom, and soft the zephyr blows, While, proudly riding o'er...Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey." The Bard. It would be idle to descant on the diction... | |
| sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 534 trang
...marriage of Louis XVI., induces me to fill half a page with beautiful verse instead of bad prose. ' Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While...Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his ev'ning prey.' " At five, news are brought that the ' Exeter' is... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 358 trang
...fancy, hov'ring o'er, " Scatters from her pictured um " Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." " Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, "...Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, "That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey." " Bright rapture calls, and soaring, as she sings,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 trang
...to salute the rising morn. Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding on the azure realm, In gallant trim the gilded vessel...Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his ev'ning prey." The last prophecy is that of the civil wars, and... | |
| William Dunlap - 1836 - 224 trang
...for your coming in to dinner, sir, let it be as humours and conceits shall govern." — Shakspeare. "Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows,...Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey."-Gray. GENTLE and courteous reader, or rather readers,... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 546 trang
...marriage of Louis XVI., induces me to fill half a page with beautiful verse instead of bad prose. ' Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While...Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his ev'ning prey.' "At five, news are brought that the 'Exeter' is coming... | |
| Leonard Withington - 1836 - 532 trang
...theory, however, for the whole world has said so. VOL. II. THE PURITAN. No. 41. Fair laughs the mom, and soft the zephyr blows. While proudly riding o'er...Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey. Hf nil's Bard. THE RIVER OF LIFE. RETURNING home one... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1836 - 746 trang
...thought of some of the most beautiful passages of Gray, without their threatening conclusion : — Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While,...goes, — Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm. So it seemed, and so it was ; for happier people never existed than Osmond and his bride. But there... | |
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