 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
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...the tissue of thy line.' II. U * 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, tWhen Severn shall re-echo with affright; The shrieks of death, through Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1824 - 536 pages
...like a meteor 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 BARD. On the authority of the most unpoetical of critics we must still hear that the poet has no... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.] See the Norwegian Ode that follows. — GRAY. Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of...shrieks of death, through Berkley'-s roof that ring, 55 Shrieks of an agonizing King ! be an image mare just, apposite, and nobly imagined than this tremendous... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...the tissue of thy line. II. 1. " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room, and verge enough The characters...reecho with affright The shrieks of death, through Berkley's roof that rin<;. Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs,... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...the tissue of thy line. II. 1. ' Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race ; Give ample room and verge enough The characters...night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The skrieks of death, through Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France,... | |
 | Charles Molloy Westmacott - England - 1826 - 520 pages
...some extraordinary anecdotes ; events, which, if recorded here, would, in the language of the poet, ' Give ample room, and verge enough, The characters of hell to trace ; How through each circling year, on many a night, Have Severn's waves re-echoed with affright The... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...the tissue of thy line.' IL K ,. " 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 roofs that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing King ! "She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs,... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...hands the tissue of thy line. " ' 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 Berkeley's roofs that ring ; Shrieks of an agonizing king ! .She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs,... | |
 | John Barber - Elocution - 1828 - 310 pages
...line. " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, " The winding sheet of Edward's race: " Give ample space and verge enough " The characters of hell to trace....re-echo with affright " The shrieks of death, through Berkley's roofs that ring: " Shrieks of an agonizing King! 5 > l Mighty Victor, mighty Lord, " Low... | |
 | England - 1829 - 282 pages
...in his conscience, for this foul deed. This murder was committed on the 21st of September, 1327. " Mark the year and mark the night, When Severn shall...re-echo with affright: The shrieks of death through Berkley's roofs that ring— Shrieks of an agonizing king."—GRAY. You perhaps know that Berkley Castle... | |
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