 The winding-sheet of Edward's race : Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year and mark the night When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death thro...  The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Page 66by Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Warner - 1800 - 396 pages
...the bards of \Vales. ' " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, " The winding-sheet of Edward.s race; "- Give ample room and verge enough, " The characters...shall re-echo with affright " The shrieks of death, through Berkley.s roof that ring; " Shrieks of an agonizing king." It was a few weeks after the capture... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 pages
...»t thy line. II. i. " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, ' The windingrfheet of Howard's race. " Give ample room, and verge enough " The characters of hell to trace. " Mark the year, and mirk the night, II t When Severn fhall re-echo with affright " The (bricks of death, through Berkley's... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...liner?;." II. 1. " Weave the warp, and weave the woof [15], " The winding-sheet of Edward's race [16], " Give ample room, and verge enough " The characters of hell to trace. (q) And -weave -with bloody hands the tissue of thy line. See the Norwegian ode [The Fatal Sisters]... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1801 - 362 pages
...with which the deed was committed, alluded to by Gray in the best of his compositions, his' " Bard." " Mark the year, and mark the night, " When Severn shall re-echo with affright, " The shrieks of death through Berkelej's roof that ring, " /shrieks of an agonizing king." Where, by the bye, the passage... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1803 - 886 pages
...most remarkable, perhaps, was of the murder of Edward the Second, in September, J327. Mark the yrtr, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright, The shrieks of death through Berkeley's roofs that ring ; Shrieks of an agonizing King! CRAY'S BARD. When the death of this... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...which adorns the purple it wears. Gray has been very severely censured by Johnson for the expression, " Give ample room, and verge enough, The characters of hell to trace." We are told that Gray, in his works, has no line so bad. " Ainplu room is feeble, but would have passed... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...drop*' That visit my sad heart .... Shaketp. Jutiut C*tar. } See the Norwegian Ode that follows. " Give ample room and verge enough " The characters...with affright " The shrieks of death thro' Berkley's roofs that ring, " Shrieks of an agonizing king * ! " She-wolf of France!, with unrelenting fangs "... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...line.' •• II. i. " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, " The winding-sheet of Edward's race. " Give ample room, and verge enough " The characters...hell to trace. " Mark the year, and mark the night, " -f-When Severn shall re-echo with affright " The shrieks of death, thro' Berkley's roof that ring,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 pages
...like a mettor to the troubled air ! Gray has been severely censured by Johnson, for the expression " Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace." The BAUD. On the authority of the most unpoetical of critics we must still hear that the poet has no... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...tissue of thy line.' II. 1. " Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Kit ward's race ; Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of...with affright The shrieks of death thro' Berkley's roofs that ring. Shrieks of an agoniaing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs That tear'st... | |
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