 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
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 546 pages
...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...and Pleasure at the helm. Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his ev'ning prey.' "At five, news are brought... | |
 | William Dunlap - History - 1836 - 224 pages
...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,...pleasure at the helm : Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey."-Gray. GENTLE and courteous... | |
 | Leonard Withington - Digital images - 1836 - 532 pages
...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...pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey. Hf nil's Bard. THE RIVER OF... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1836 - 746 pages
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...swarm that in thy noontide beam were born, Gone to salute the rising morn : Fair laughs the morn,t and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er...the prow and pleasure at the helm, Regardless of the swe»ping whirlwind's sway, That hushed in grim repose expects his evening prey. II. 3. ' Fill high... | |
 | Leonard Withington - American essays - 1836 - 274 pages
...II. 8 THE PURITAN. No. 41. Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'ei the azure realm, In gallant trim the gilded vessel...pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's away, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey. Oray's Bard. THE RIVER OF... | |
 | William Smith - English poetry - 1836 - 190 pages
...Westminster, from Scone. IMITATIONS. Fill high the sparkling bowl ; The rich repast prepare. Gray. In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; Youth on...pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his ev'ning prey. Gray. Poor naked wretches,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1837 - 110 pages
...Amazement in his van, with Flight combin'd ; And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind. v. i IGHTY Victor, mighty Lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies...Pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening-prey. Mighty Victor, mighty Lord,... | |
 | William Dunlap - American fiction - 1837 - 440 pages
...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,...pleasure at the helm : Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hushed in grim repose, expects his evemng prey."-ffray. GENTLE and courteous... | |
 | William Scott - Phrenology - 1837 - 382 pages
...must always be true, what the poet has applied to a gay and unfortunate monarch : Fair laughs the man, and soft the zephyr blows, While, proudly riding o'er...and pleasure at the helm, Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway That, husfi'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.* Were the natural laws and... | |
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