Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects... An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste - Page 396by Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 471 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...soft the Zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the axurc realm In gallant trim the gilded ves>el goes ; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his eveningprey. " ' Fill high the sparkling... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...igal) seems to have caught from this passage the imagery of the following. Fair laughs the morn, ami soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the...goes ; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; The g t«D Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's swajr, That hush'd in grim repose, expects his... | |
| Thomas Pennant - London (England) - 1813 - 534 pages
...entrance of his successor into power, in the bitter taunt he puts into the mouth of a British bard ! Mighty victor, mighty lord, Low on his funeral couch...pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening-prey. THE tomb of the wasteful unfortunate... | |
| Mary Brunton - 1814 - 318 pages
...elopement to her, lest she should feel it a duty to acquaint my father with my purpose. 75 CHAP. XIV. Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While,...pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey. GRAY. JN o sooner had I acquiesced... | |
| George Stanley Faber - Holy Spirit - 1814 - 282 pages
...faneies that he eannot but be safe in the road whieh is trod by so many thousands besides himself. Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While...Pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hus'd in grim repose, expeets his evening prey. This is generally the situation... | |
| English literature - 1809 - 672 pages
...stalely vessel : Fait laujhs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the a/urc realm, In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes : Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm ; Repidltssof the sweeping whirlwind's -way, Ttat, husli'd iu giiru repose, expects lu» evening prey.... | |
| 1815 - 210 pages
...morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm, In gallant trim the pilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose, expects his coming prcy...Gr4y. WHEN lord Nelson arrived... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...laughs the mom, and soft the zephyr blows, * This black armour is preserved or imitated in the Tower. While proudly riding o'er the azure realm, In gallant...pleasure at the helm,. Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway; That hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey." • ''The swarm, fyc.• —... | |
| Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...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...pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his ev'ning prey." The last prophecy is that... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 312 pages
...While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, • .• ' ' YOUTH at the prow and PLEASURE at the .helm. Regardless of...whirlwinds sway, That hush'd in grim repose, expects it's evening prey.^ (In which, by the bye, the words "realm" and " sway" are rhymes dearly purchased.)... | |
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