By civil rage and rancour fell. The rural pipe and merry lay No more shall cheer the happy day : No social scenes of gay delight Beguile the dreary winter night : No strains, but those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe, While the pale... The New-York Review - Page 1471840Full view - About this book
| John Bell - English poetry - 1791 - 546 pages
...dreary winter night: strains but those of sorrow flow, . vnd nought be heard but sounds of wo; While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. Oh baneful cause, oh fatal morn, Accurs'd to ages yet unborn! The sons against their fathers stood;... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 472 pages
...dreary winter night : No strains hut those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe, While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. O baneful cause, oh ! fatal morn, Accursed to ages yet unborn ! The sons against Aieir father stood,... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...dreary winter night : No strains, but those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. TOBIAS SMOLLET. O baneful canse ' oh, fatal morn, Accurs'd to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...dreary winter night : No strains, but those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of wo, While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. O baneful cause ! oh, fatal morn, Accurs'd to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their fathers stood,... | |
| Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...dreary winter night : No strains but those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe, While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er .the silent plain. 0 baneful cause ! oh, fatal morn, Accursed to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their father stood,... | |
| Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...dreary winter night: No strains, but those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe, While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. V. O baneful cause! oh fatal morn! Accurs'd to ages yet unborn! The sons against the father stood,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 682 pages
...dreary winter night: Wo strains but those of sorrow Bow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe, While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. "O baneful cause, oh, fatal morn, Accurs'U to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their fathers stood,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1811 - 546 pages
...dreary winter night: No strains but those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe; While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. Vol. III. 1 fci; O baneful cau-o' O fatal morn ! Accurs'd to aces yet unborn ! The son* against their... | |
| English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...winter night : No strains, but those of sorrow, flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe: While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. Oh baneful cause, oh fatal morn, Accursed to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their fathers stood... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...dreary winter night : No strains but those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe, While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain. O baneful cause, 'oh fatal morn, Accurs'd to ages yet unborn ! The sons against their father stood,... | |
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