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" Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare ; Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast : Close by the regal chair Fell Thirst and Famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and... "
Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784 - Page 189
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The Works of Thomas Gray, Esq

Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 pages
...whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening-prey. II. 3. : . I il / I • > " "Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare,...upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle b bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse ? Long years of havoc urge their destin'd course, And through...
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The History of Pontefract, in Yorkshire

George Fox - 1827 - 462 pages
...The poet Gray, in his Pindaric ode of the bard, is of opinion that he was starved to death : — Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare,...famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Sir John Fortescue says, that Richard died ' a deathe neuer before that time knowne in England.' Hector...
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening-prey. " • Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare :...upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle bray,|l Lance to lance, and horse to horse? Long years of havoc urge their destiu'd course, And through...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects Λο evening prej. ' Fill high the sparkling bowl, (7) f a name, See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame...There, in the rich, the honoured, fumed, and great. (8) Lance to lance, and horse to horse ? Long years of havoc nrge their destined courue, And through...
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The History of England, Volume 1

Sir James Mackintosh - 1830 - 414 pages
...The corpse was interred at Langley, but removed to the royal sepulchre at Westminster by Henry V. * Close by the regal chair, Fell Thirst and Famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. The Bard. The testimony of Scrope archbishop of York, the nearest witness to the time and place of...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 29

1831 - 1094 pages
...TICKLER desolate. TICKLER. Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare ! Robb'd of a goose, I yet may share the feast. Close by the regal chair,...Famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Ambrose — a goose !— a goose ! — my kingdom for a goose,— and, Tappie ! pot o' pota! SHEPHERD....
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Johannes von Müllers sämmtliche Werke, Volumes 19-20

Johannes von Müller - 1833 - 546 pages
...periurii, Im zcronos. SO) Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare; Reft of a crovrn, he ycj may share the feast: Close by the regal chair Fell...famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. €o Sftoniae ©rat;, nicfjt nur einer ber größten Sanier airer Reiten, fonbern ein genauer Jorfctjer;...
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Stories of Waterloo ...

William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 406 pages
...marvelled, how even that stately and warlike frame could support the broken heart it covered. WATERLOO. Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse ? < I» \ v WHEN morning broke, the rival armies were visible to each other. It was said that Napoleon...
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Stories of Waterloo; and other tales [by W.H. Maxwell].

William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 404 pages
...how even that stately and warlike frame could support the broken heart it covered. WATERLOO. Heard yc the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse ? GRAY. WHEN morning broke, the rival armies were visible to each other. It was said that Napoleon...
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Ramble on; or Dialogue the second, between Warner Search, and Peter Peeradeal

sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - 1835 - 148 pages
...the Black Prince, called by Gray ' the sable warrior." The deposed monarch was starved to death. " Close by the regal chair Fell Thirst and Famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest." — Gray. eluding anecdote, descending upon modern times, I enter the obscure interior of my own domestic...
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