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" Perching on the sceptred hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With ruffled plumes, and flagging wing : Quench'd in dark clouds of slumber lie The terror of his beak, and lightnings of his eye. "
A collection of poems, by several hands [ed. by R. Dodsley]. [2 other copies ... - Page 381
by Collection - 1765
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The young gentleman and lady's poetical preceptor, selected [by T. Woolston].

Young gentleman - 1807 - 314 pages
...hear thy foft controul. On Thracia's hills the Lord of War Has curh'd the fury of his car, And dropp'd his thirfty lance at thy command. Perching on the...lulls the feather'd king With ruffled plumes, and nagging wing: Quench'd in dark clouds of (lumher lie The terror of his heak, and lighming of hit eye....
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...curb'd the fury of his car, And drop'd his thirsty lance at thy command. Perching on the scept'red hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With...plumes, and flagging wing: Quench'd in dark clouds of slumber lie The terror of his beak, and light'nings of his eye. sistible course, when sivoln and hurried,...
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The Muses' Bower,: Embellished with the Beauties of English Poetry, Volume 1

English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...Has curb'd the fury of his car, And drop'd his thirsty lance at thy command. Perching on the sceptred hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With...plumes, and flagging wing: Quench'd in dark clouds of slumber lie The terror of his beak, and light'nings of his eye. I. 3. Thee the voice, the dance, obey,...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...ctirb'd the fury of his car, Anddnipp'd his thirsty lance at thy command. Perch in:; on the sceptred Imud Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With ruffled plumes, and flagging wing: Quench 'd in dark clouds of slumber lie The terror of his beak, aud lightning of his eye. Tbec the...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 14

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...the fury of his car, And dropp'd his thirsty lance at thy command: Perching on the scepter'd hand 3 sents, not only from Cosinio and the signiory, but...th principal citizens, who vied with each other in slumber lie The terrour of his beak, and lightning of his eye. Thee the voice, the dance, obey «,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 17

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 662 pages
...and satiate with the melting tone: Sovereign of birds. And thus by Gray : Perching on the sceptor'd hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With ruffled plumes, and flagging wiug : Queuch'd in dark clouds of slumber lie The terrour of his beak, and lightnings of his eye. And...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 14

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...the fury of his car, Arri dropp'd his thirsty lance at thy command: Perching on the scepter'd hand 3 Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With ruffled plumes, and flagging wing : Queuch'd in dark clouds of slumber lie The teneur of his beak, and lightning of his eye. Thee the...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Mallet, Akenside ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...fury of his car, An 1 drupp'd his thirsty lance at thy command: P. rehing on the sctpter'd hand î (И Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With ruffled plumes, and flagging wing : O'MiH'h''! in dark clouds of slumber lie Tu terrour of his beak, and lightning of his eye. the voice,...
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The works of Tibullus, tr. by J. Grainger, Volume 1

Albius Tibullus - 1812 - 386 pages
...curb'd the fury of his car, And drop'd his thirsty lance at thy command. Perching on the tcepter'd hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With...plumes and flagging wing; Quench'd in dark clouds of slumber lie Tbe terror of his beak, and lighrning of his eye. Odt by Gray. What follows, is from Dr....
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The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his ...

Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...Britain bent his iron car." And dropt his thirsty lance at thy command. Perching on the scept'red hand 20 Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With ruffled plumes and flagging wing: NOTES. " Mavortia Thrace," Statii Theb. 1. 20 F; and " Mars Thfecen occnpat," Ovid. Ar. Am. ii. ver....
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