...the monarch : — " Ruin seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy banners wait ! Though faun'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with...hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail, To .save thy gentle soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, — from Cambria's...

...BARD. A PINDARIC ODE. I. uiN seize thee, ruthless King ! Confusion on thy banners wait ! Though fanned by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with...hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears...

...fragments, which form its opening and ending, ought by no means to be omitted. Ruin seize Шее, ml hies» king ! Confusion on thy banners wait ! Though, fann'd...Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state ! * At liquidas avium Tores Imltarler ore Ante full multo, qiiam laivia carmina canin, &c. Reim, nor...

...example, in the opening stanza of Grey's celebrated Ode on the subjection of Scotland by Edward the First: Ruin seize thee, ruthless king, Confusion on thy banners...fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air in idle state. at once with the metaphorical embellishment of poetical composition. But no : there...

...tribe, was even fond Of it. * Sober. t A simile. t A boat. J Rocking the boat II By hii own carelexnm. " Ruin seize thee ruthless king ! Confusion on thy banners...wait ; Though fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mpcfc the air with idle state." AlliteratioA, open or occult, may be traced through every turn of this...

...on a rock, lamenting his comrades' death, and calling down curses on the head of the monarch : " ' Ruin seize thee, ruthless King ! Confusion on thy...hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail, * Sir John Herschel observes : " The highest mountain does not exceed five miles in perpendicular...

...aimilti t A boat I Booklnf OH boat I! By his own eanlMDM* " Ruin seize thee ruthless king ! Contusion on thy banners wait ; Though fann'd by conquest's crimson wing. They mock the air with idle state." • Alliteration, open or occult, may be traced through every turn of this brief paragraph. Young,...

...conquest of that country, ordered all the Bards that fell into his hands to be put to death. I. 1. ** RUIN seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy...hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, Tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears...

...GRAY. THE BARD. i. " RUIN seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy banners wait ! Though fanned by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with...hauberk's ' twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears...

...be put to death.] ' Ruin seize thee, ruthless king, Confusion on thy banners wait ; 1 Though fanned shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears...