| Aeschylus - Greek drama - 1829 - 362 pages
...rite, nor formal ostentation. Gray's beautiful lines in the Bard, ii. 2. are exceedingly apposite. Mighty victor, mighty lord, Low on his funeral couch...pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies. this circumstance — he was mangled, and in the way in which she despatched him, thus she... | |
| Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1836 - 626 pages
...Gray so finely alluded in his poem of the Bard : — " Mighty victor, mighty Lord! Low on his fun'ral couch he lies, No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies." In respect to the base crime of stealing the rings from the person of the dying monarch,... | |
| Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton - Great Britain - 1836 - 578 pages
...Gray so finely alluded in his poem of the Bard : — " Mighty victor, mighty Lord I Low on his fun'ral couch he lies, No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies." In respect to the base crime of stealing the rings from the person of the dying monarch,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1837 - 110 pages
...Amazement in his van, with Flight combin'd ; And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind. v. i IGHTY Victor, mighty Lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies...pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies. Is the sable warrior fled ? Thy son is gone. He rests among the dead. The swarm, that in... | |
| 1838 - 492 pages
...of Edward in., and the eventful character of the reign of his grandson Richard n. "Mighty Vict'ir, mighty Lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies ! No pitying heart, no eye afford A tear to grace his obsequies, Is the sable warrior fled .' Thy son is gone. He rests among the dead. The swarm that in... | |
| Stephen Rumbold Lushington - Generals - 1840 - 586 pages
...that could then have been positively said, was, as the immortal Gray sung of the merciless Edward, Mighty Victor, mighty Lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies, No pitying heart, no eyes afford A tear to grace his obsequies, The sable warrior's fled, He rests among the dead. But whether... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...Amazement in his van, with Flight combined, And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind. II. 2. " Mighty victor, mighty lord ! Low on his funeral couch...No pitying heart, no eye afford A tear to grace his obsequies. Ver. 55. The ihriefa of death, through Berkley'! roof that ring] Edward the Second, cruelly... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...wait ! Amazement in his van, with Flight combined ; And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind. " Mighty Victor, mighty Lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies ! No pitying heart, no eye afford ./ tear to grace his obsequies. Is the sable warrior fled ! Thy sou is gone. He rests among the dead.... | |
| George Russell French - 1841 - 444 pages
...of him who gave away lands in £ngland at his pleasure, iu the light of a pensioner. CHAPTER IX. " Mighty victor, mighty Lord ! Low on his funeral couch he lies, No pitying heart, no eye affords A tear to grace his obsequies." CRAY. " Your grandfather of famous memory, an't please your... | |
| William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...Amazement in his van, with Flight comhined, And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind' II. 2. ' Mighty victor, mighty lord, $ Low on his funeral couch...pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies. Is the sable $ Warrior fled ? Thy sun is gone, lie rests among the dead. The swarm, that... | |
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