 Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre. She, with all a monarch's pride, Felt them in her bosom glow : Rush'd to battle, fought, and died ; Dying, hurl'd them at the foe.  Kottabos: College Miscellany - Page 3161877Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 468 pages
...prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but aweful lyre. She with all a monarch's pride, Felt them in...bosom glow, Rush'd to battle, fought and died, Dying, hurPd them at the foe. Ruffians! pitiless as proud, Heaven awards the vengeance due ; HEEOISM. TKEEE... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 806 pages
...Bending as he swept the chords IX. Such the bard's prophetick worda, Of his sweet but awful lyre X. Sho, with all a monarch's pride, Felt them in her bosom glow ; Rush'd to battle, fought, and died ; XIRuffians, pitiless as proud, Heav'n awards the vengeance due* Empire is on us bestow'd, Shame and... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 pages
...flew, None invincible as they. Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre....due, Empire is on us bestow'd, Shame and ruin wait for you. COWPER 59.— ON THE DOWNFALL OF POLAND. Waved her dread standard to the breeze of morn, Peal'd... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 342 pages
...; None invincible as they.' Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending, as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre....battle, fought, and died, Dying, hurl'd them at the foe. — COWPER. AFTER reading these lines, you will expect the subject of our chapter to-day to be somewhat... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 582 pages
...flew, None invincible as they. Snch the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre....all a monarch's pride, Felt them in her bosom glow : Rnsh'd to battle, fo tight, and died : Dying, hurl'd them at the foe. Ramans, pitiless as proud,... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1856 - 430 pages
...flew, None invincible as they. Such the hard's prophetic words Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre....battle, fought and died ; Dying hurl'd them at the foe. Unmans, pitiless as proud, Heaven awards the vengeance duet Smpire is on us bestoVd, Shame and ruin... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 512 pages
...chords Of his sweet but awful lyre. Rush'd to battle, fought and died Dying hurl'd them at the foe. She, with all a monarch's pride, Felt them in her bosom glow: Heav'n awards the vengeance fluej Empire is on us bestow'd, Ruffians, pitiless as proud, Shame and... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...hard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending7 as he swept the chords Of his sweet hut awful lyre. She, with all a monarch's pride, Felt them in her hosom glow ; Rush'd to hattle, fought, and died, Dying, hurl'd them at the foe. Ruffians, pitiless... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...flew, None invincible as they." Such the bard's prophetic words Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending, as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre....all a monarch's pride, Felt them in her bosom glow ; Rushed to battle, fought, and died : Dying, hurled them at the foe : " Ruffians, pitiless as proud,... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...flew, None invincible as they." Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre....hurl'd them at the foe. " Ruffians, pitiless as proud, Heav'n awards the vengeance due ; Empire is on us bestow'd, Shame and ruin wait for you." TO MARY.... | |
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