| 1854 - 598 Seiten
...Gray wished to paint the characteristics of that great-hearted age, what points did his eyes seize ? Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear, And gorgeous dames and statesmen old, In bearded majesty appear. Shakespeare will preserve the custom... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 Seiten
...our long-lost Arthur 1 we bewail : All hail, ye genuine Kings ! 2 Britannia's issue, hail ! III. 2. ' Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear ; And gorgeous dames and statesmen old In bearded majesty appear ; In the midst a form divine, Her... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 Seiten
...our long-lost Arthur l we bewail : All hail, ye genuine Kings ! 2 Britannia's issue, hail ! III. 2. ' Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear ; And gorgeous dames and statesmen old In bearded majesty appear ; In the midst a form divine, Her... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...our long-lost Arthur we bewail,* All hail, ye genuine Kings! Britannia's issue, hail! "• III. 2. " Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear j And gorgeous dames, and statesmen old In bearded majesty, appear. 1 Henry the Sixth, Qeorge Dnke... | |
| Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 Seiten
...our long-lost Arthur we bewail, All hail, ye genuine kings, Britannia's issue, hail ! III.— 2. " Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear ; And gorgeous dames, and statesmen old In bearded majesty appear ; In the midst a form divine ! Her... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 Seiten
...more our long-lost Arthur we bewail,* All hail, ye genuine Kings! Britannia's issue, hail!"* III. 2. " Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear ; And gorgeous dames, and statesmen old In bearded majesty, appear. 1 Henry the Sixth, George Duke... | |
| English poetry - 1857 - 334 Seiten
...more our long-lost Arthur 18 we bewail — All hail, ye genuine kings ! " Britannia's issue, hail ! " Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear ; And gorgeous dames, and statesmen old, In bearded majesty, appear. In the midst, a form divine !... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 Seiten
...! No more our long-lost Arthur we bewail. All hail, ye genuine kings ; Britannia's issue, hail ! " Girt with many a baron bold Sublime their starry fronts they rear ; And gorgeous dames, and statesmen old, In bearded majesty, appear. In the midst a form divine ! Her... | |
| Bernhard Freiherr von Tauchnitz - 1860 - 468 Seiten
...Descending slow, their glittering skirts unroll! Visions of glory! spare my aching sight! m.— 2. "Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear ; And gorgeous dames and statesmen old In bearded majesty appear; In the midst a form divine, Her eye... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1861 - 586 Seiten
...poetry ! Here are some minute corrections in Gray's " Bard," which may amuse the more curious reader : " Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear" (iii. 2), stood originally, " Haughty knights and barons bold, With dazzling helm and horrent spear."... | |
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