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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 Living Authors of America: 1st ser

Thomas Powell - 1850 - 384 pages
...great idea. Alluding to the fate of Richard the Second, who was starved to death, Gray says : — " Close by the regal chair Fell Thirst and Famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest." Our space will not allow us to analyse " The Women of the Nineteenth Century." It is the less necessary,...
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The Living Authors of America: 1st ser

Thomas Powell - 1850 - 380 pages
...great idea. Alluding to the fate of Richard the Second, who was starved to death, Gray says : — " Close by the regal chair Fell Thirst and Famine scowl A baleful smile upon then- baffled guest." Our space will not allow us to analyse " The Women of the Nineteenth Century."...
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The Castles, Palaces, and Prisons of Mary of Scotland

Charles Mackie - 1850 - 556 pages
...that he must have been quite overpowered, had not Randolph hastened to his assistance. Now commenced " the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse.*' The conflict was at the hottest, and it was long uncertain on which side victory would terminate it....
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Half hours of English history, selected and illustr. by C. Knight, Volume 1

English history - 1851 - 702 pages
...grim repose, expects his ev'ning prey. "Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare, Beft of a crown, he yet may share the feast Close by the...Lance to lance, and horse to horse ? Long years of havock urge their destin'd oouree, And thro' the kindred squadrons mow their way. Ye towers of Julius,...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Comedies ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 544 pages
...Regardless of the s» frpin.; whirlwind's spray, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey. Fm high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare,...famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest." The body of Richard was brought to London ; and being publicly exposed, was removed to Langley for...
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The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 546 pages
...whirlwind's spray, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey. Fill high the sparkling bow], The rich repast prepare. Reft of a crown, he yet may...famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest." The body of Richard was brought to London ; and being publicly exposed, was removed to Langley for...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 pages
...the Preface to M>ison's Hoceleve, p. 5; Daniel. Civil Wars, iii. 87; and Pennant. London, p. 89, 4to. Fell Thirst and Famine scowl A baleful smile upon...of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse ? B» Long years of havock urge their destined courso, And thro' the kindred squadrons mow their way....
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pages
...the sweeping whirlwind's sway, 75 That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his ev'ningprey. II. 3. " Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare,...yet may share the feast : Close by the regal chair oo " The goodly London in her gallant trim, And on her shadow rides in floating gold." Dryden. An....
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 548 pages
...Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's spray. That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey. Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare. Reft of a crown, he yet m»y share the feast: Close by the regal chair Fell thirst and famine scowl A baleful smile upon their...
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Waverly Novels: Quentin Durward

Walter Scott - 1851 - 536 pages
...grateful to the ear." The conclusion of the evening offered nothingworthy of notice. CHAPTER XXVIII. Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to hone ? GKAT. li had been agreed, on account of the heat of the climate, that the judicial combat, which...
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