 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...  Temple Bar - Page 178edited by - 1874Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...dreadful harmony they join, 'And * weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.' •• II. i. " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, " The winding-sheet...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 - 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...bloody hands 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...with affright ' The shrieks of death, thro' Berkley's roofslhii ' Shrieks of an agonizing king t \™Zl ' She-wolf of France, with unrelenting Ung?, ' That... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...bloody hands 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...shall 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...luil weave with bloody bands the tissue of t>y line,' " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, '• 1 he winding-sheet of Edward's race : •' Give ample room,...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
...With me in dreadful harmony they join, And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line". II. " ' Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet...year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo 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
...me in dreadful harmony they join, And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line ' -'. И. " ' Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet...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,... | |
 | Robert Lowth - Hebrew language - 1815 - 618 pages
...i-iixw-a nt AUINON UAH:4 rat ISTOTFroTNTflN EINAI. Eustaih.] when compared with his imagery of WIAVISIJ*" Weave the warp and weave the woof, " The winding-sheet of Edward's race," See. and it is somewhat remarkable that, in his Ode from the Norse tongue, intitled the Fatal Sistcri,... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...this stanza (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... | |
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