 | English essays - 1832 - 618 pages
...is from the following very fine passage in one of Gray's beautiful Pindaric Odes, The Bard ! " Fnir laughs the Morn, and soft the Zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm, ID galliot mm the gilded vessel goes, Youth OQ the prow and Pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 368 pages
...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 - Literature - 1833 - 348 pages
...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... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 528 pages
...grim repose ; " and the shrieks and struggles of drowning mariners less affecting than the sight of " Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm," "regardless" of the inevitable doom on which they were already verging. Dryden's " Alexander's Feast" is undoubtedly the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1834 - 360 pages
...and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind!" to the imitation in the bard : " Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While...realm, In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, YOUTH at the prow and PLEASURE at the helm, Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Criticism - 1834 - 368 pages
...blows, 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 the...whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects its evening prey." (In which, by-the-by, the words "realm" and "sway" are rhymes dearly purchased.)... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 534 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 334 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...Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, bush'd in grim repose, expects his ev'ning prey." The last prophecy is that of the civil wars, and... | |
 | George Field - Color - 1835 - 310 pages
...of green combine in the joint sentiment or expression of youth, freshness, joy, and animation : — Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While...realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth at the prow, and Pleasure at the helm. GRAY. And in the succeeding, the expression of green is cool,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 pages
...morning, and his country in the figure of the vessel ! " The swarm that in thy noontide beam were born, Gone 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 goes, Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the... | |
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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 hushed in grim repose expects... 
