| Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1811 - 590 pages
...flood; of darkness; and of eternity; all of which are crowded into the two last lines: " He spoke — and headlong from the mountain's height " Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night." Among the Grecian sages, Plato has been always more peculiarly characterized by the... | |
| John Evans (M. D.) - Bees - 1806 - 332 pages
...lay, 878. List ye] " Be thine despair and scepter'd care, " To triumph and to tiic be mine, " He said, and headlong from the mountain's height " Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night." GRAY'* Sard. . - . stft soothing air] The celebrated plaintive Welsh air called alorfu... | |
| Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...ereptaquefata Insequor, et comites feror expectatus ad umbras ; Te superis, fratrique. VOL. I. K He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.* NOTES. Compare also the conclusion of the first Olymp. of Pindar, ver. 184,... | |
| John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 pages
...flood; of darkness, and of eternity ; all of which are crowded into the two last lines. * He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.' In the following well-known illustration of the superiority of the moral... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...our fate assign ; Be thine despair and scept'red care, To triumph and to die, be mine. He spoke — and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged in endless night." Fond impious man. — Fond in old language means to express thinking or... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...fates assign. ' Be thine despair, and scepter'd care ; ' To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night. ON EDUCATION. As sickly plants betray a niggard earth, Whose barren bosom starves her... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...our Fates assign. Be thine Despair, and sceptred Care, To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height, Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night. m Speed, relating an audience given by Queen Elizabeth to Paul Dzialiruki, ambassador... | |
| John Bowdler - 1820 - 418 pages
...flood; of darkness, and of eternity ; all of which are crowded into the two last lines : ' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night' In the following well-known illustration of the superiority of the moral above the physical... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...our fates assign. Be thine despair, and sceptred care, To trinmph, and to die, arc mine." He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night. Ver. 128. In buskin' dmeasttres move.] SFIAKSPEARF. Ver. 1S1. A voice, as of the cherub-choir.']... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...our Fates assign. Be thine Despair, and scepter'd Care : To triumph, and to die, are mine." He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night. THE FATAL SISTERS. • AN ODE. [ From the Norse- Tongue. ~\ • H THE ORCADES OF THORMODUS... | |
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