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" 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 43
by Richard Warner - 1800 - 365 pages
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The Bard

Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1837 - 84 pages
...hands the tissue of thy line. IV. EAVE 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 roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ; She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs,...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volumes 161-162

Early English newspapers - 1837 - 756 pages
...the noble stanza of the poet — Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of England's race ; Give ample room and verge enough, The characters of Hell to trace. Taking this as the key-note to his song, the poet of the present lay has conveyed his stern remonstrance...
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Poems. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 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 of hell to trace.' " — When the prophetic incantation is finished, the Bard thus nervously concludes. " ' Enough for...
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An Endeavour to Classify the Sepulchral Remains in Northamptonshire; Or, A ...

Charles Henry Hartshorne - Brasses - 1840 - 112 pages
...tranquil slumber, so little known to the royal couch ; as our poet says in allusion to the event : Mark the year, and mark the night, • When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death thro' Berkeley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...hands the tissue of thy line. n. 1. " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room, and verge enough The characters...the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright Bllv to build their aerie among the rocks of Snowdon, which from thence (as some think) were named...
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The ancestry of ... queen Victoria, and of ... prince Albert

George Russell French - 1841 - 444 pages
...parliamentary representation. CHAPTER VIII. " Ruin seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy banners wait ! Mark the year 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." GRAY. The House of PLANTAGENET continued...
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The Castles and Abbeys of England: From the National Records ..., Volume 2

William Beattie, William Henry Bartlett - Abbeys - 1844 - 436 pages
...father in massacring the bards. " 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 roof that ring — Shrieks of an agonizing King!" ] JHftftartJ tit (HrrCEnt>tlf,t the reputed...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each

William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...MorweKiaa Ude, that follows. r 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 ! fShe-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs,...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each

William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 328 pages
...fottowa* W iiruutiul. u 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 thas ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king! tShe-wulf of France, with unrelenting fangs,...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...hands the tissue of thj line.' ' Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's obert Berkeley's3 roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonising king! She-wolf4 of France, with unrelenting fangs,...
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