 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, through Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an...  Second Walk Through Wales, - Page 43by Richard Warner - 1800 - 365 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 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... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...the tissue of thy line.1 II. 1. " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, " The winding sheet of Edward's race ; " Give ample room, and verge enough " The characters...re-echo with affright " The shrieks of death, through Berkley's roof that ring, " Shrieks of an agonizing King !f " She-wolf of France,* with unrelenting... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...the tissue of th; [liw'. II. 1. " 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, thro' Berkley's roofslhii ' Shrieks of an agonizing king t \™Zl ' She-wolf of France, with unrelenting... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...the 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...Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death thro' Berkley's roofs that ring. Shrieks of an agoniaing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...the tissue of t>y line,' " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, '• 1 he winding-sheet of Edward's race : •' Give ample room, and verge enough •'...the year, and mark the night, " When Severn shall re echo with afl'riglit " J be shrieks of death, thro' Berkley's roofs Hint ring : " Shrieks of an... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...the tissue of thy line". II. " ' Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's were destined. Thus by the very propensity of nature we are led to adnvre, n»»t little springs w ith alVright The shrieks of death, through Berkley's roofs that Shrieks of an agonizing king ; [ring... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...tissue of thy line ' -'. И. " ' Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of Hell to traoe. Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...tissue of thy line. II. 1. " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. 50 Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of...the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright NOTES. See Callimach. H. Dian. v. 211. Theocr. Id. cap. 53. Quint. Smyrn. x. 475. Catullus, xiv. I.... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...(no more, 8ic.) is rather flat. " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race, Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace." Johnson in his illiberal criticism on this poem, in the life of Gray, confounds the warp with the woof... | |
 | John Aikin - England - 1818 - 546 pages
...of various events in early history, of which the most memorable was the murder of Edward II in 1327. Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death thro' Berkeley's roofs that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king. GRAY'S BARD. The castellated form of... | |
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