| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...by his courtiers ;> ml IM-- mi*iivs~, 1 Edward the Black Prince, deailsome time before liis father. Fair* laughs the Morn, and soft the Zephyr blows,...realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in... | |
| Richard Warner - 1824 - 364 pages
...alluded to the dire contrast displayed between the opening and the close of this inglorious reign : Fair laughs the morn,* and soft the zephyr blows,...realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm, Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in... | |
| James Heywood Markland - Carriages and carts - 1824 - 692 pages
...well-known anecdote may have suggested to Gray the beautiful image of Richard's early prosperity : " In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, " Youth at the prow, and pleasure at the helm." . Gower's authority supports the story of voluntary starvation. I must admit that it would have been... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 398 pages
...thought of some of the most beautiful pa .sages of Gray, without their threatening conclusion:— ' Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While,...realm, In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes,— Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the Iwlm.' So it seemed, and so it was; for happier people never existed... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...among the dead. The swarm, that in thy noontide beam were born ? (¡one to salute the rising morn. | w on the prow, and pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in... | |
| Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...unaffectedly introduces. — WAKEFIELD. " Around thee call The gilded swarm, that wantons in the sunshine Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While...realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; The following lines, though they contain a sentiment similar... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 398 pages
...thought of some of the most beautiful passages of Gray, without their threatening conclusion i — ' Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While,...realm, ' .. In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, — . v . Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm." So it seemed, and so it was; for happier people... | |
| Robert Grenville Wallace - India - 1825 - 342 pages
...her situation in language almost as beautiful, and to the same effect, as the fine lines of Gray : " Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm, In gilded trim the gallant vessel goes, Youth at the prow, and Pleasure at the helm, Regardless of the... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 396 pages
...without their threatening conclusion : — • i '" ' Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, ti While, proudly riding o'er the azure realm, ,; . In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes,— ., ._. y . 4 Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm.. So it seemed, and so it was; for happier... | |
| Stephen Reynolds Clarke - Great Britain - 1826 - 494 pages
...Edward the Third, than the clouds and tempests which darkened the horizon of his unhappy grandson : Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While...realm, In gallant trim, the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in... | |
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