 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...born, who o'er thy country hangs 60 The scourge of Heav'u.5 What Terrors round him wait ! Amazement8 birds and beasts and famish 'd men at bay, 60 Till hunger clung them,1 or the II. 2 "Mighty victor, mighty lord! Low on his funeral couch he lies! 66 No pitying heart, no eye, afford... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1919 - 106 pages
...From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heav'n. What terrors round him wait! 60 Amazement in his van, with flight combin'd, And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind. II. 2. ''' Mighty victor, mighty lord! Low on his funeral couch he lies! • No pitying heart, no eye,... | |
 | Roberta J. M. Olson, Jay M. Pasachoff - Art - 1999 - 412 pages
...bowels of thy mangled mate, " From thce be born, who o'er thy country " hangi "The feou!ge of Ileav'n. What terrors " round him wait! " Amazement in his..." And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude " behind. " Mighty Viflor, mighty Lord, Low on his funeral coueh he lies! Figure 42. William Blake, Edward III... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1818 - 448 pages
...ravages had produced.' ' From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. \Vhat terrors round him wait! Amazement in his van, with...combin'd, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind,' ' Our authors' explanation is this. ' The poet describes the beginning of the reign of Edward III,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1927 - 272 pages
...his latter days (and truly on his whole life) sit deep clouds of mystery and darkness and silence;— Amazement in his van with flight combin'd And sorrow's faded form and solitude behind! !34 I imaged too a banquet or carousal of feodal magnificence—such (for instance) as in Schiller's... | |
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That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born , who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heav'n. What terrors round him wait! Amazement in his van, with flight combin'd, And sorrow's faded form , and solitude behind. 
