 See the grisly texture grow, ("Tis of human entrails made,) And the weights, that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head. Shafts for shuttles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along Sword, that once a Monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 4841846Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...Weaving many a soldier's doom, Orkney's woe and Randver's bane. See the grisly texture grow! ('Tis of human entrails made) And the weights, that play...a monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong. Mista, black terrific maid, Sangrida, and Hilda, see, Join the wayward work to aid : 'Tis the woof... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 406 pages
...prepare : Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air. See the gristly texture grow ; 'Tis of human entrails made; And the weights that play...Each a gasping warrior's head. Shafts, for shuttles, dipp'd in gore, Shoot the trembling chords along; Sword, that once a monarch bore. Keep the tissue... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...Weaving many a soldier's doom, Orkney's woe and Randver's bane. See the grisly texture grow! ('Tis of human entrails made) And the weights, that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head. Shafts for shutlles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along. Sword, that once a monarch bore, Keep the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...Weaving many a soldier's doom, Orkney's woe, and Kandver's hane. See the grisly texture grow ! ('Tis of human entrails made) And the weights, that play...a monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong. Mista, black terrific maid, Sangrida, and Hilda, see ! Join the wayward work to aid : 'Tis the woof... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...made) And the weights, that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head. Shafts for shuttles, dipp'd in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along. Sword, that...monarch bore, ' Keep the tissue close and strong. Mista, black terrific maid, Sangrida, and Hilda, see! Join the wayward work to aid: Tis the woof of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 402 pages
...to a very tremendous one in Gray's eighth Ode, the Fatal Sisters: " See the grisly texture grow (Tis of human entrails made), And the weights that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head !" Which 1 have heard critics of weak nerves, and affected sensibility, complain of as too horrid.... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1824 - 462 pages
...prepare : Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air. See the grisly texture grow ; T is of human entrails made ; And the weights that play...Shafts, for shuttles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling chords along; Sword, that once a monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong.' " The second Norwegian... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 416 pages
...very tremendous one in Gray's eighth Ode, The Fatal Sisters : " See the grisly texture grow, ('Tis of human entrails made,) And the weights that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head!" Warton. VOL. II. N Obvius huic latus omne virum stipante corona, It juvenis, ferrumque ingens sub pectore... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 428 pages
...very tremendous one in Gray's eighth Ode, The Fatal Sisters : " See the grisly texture grow, ("Tis of human entrails made,) And the weights that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head !" IVarton. Obvius huic latus omne virum stipante corona, It juvenis, fernunque ingens sub pectore... | |
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