| John William Carleton - 1869 - 516 pages
...have had a prescient view of m odern yachting in his mind when he wrote the following lines : — " Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While,...azure realm, In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm." and Shakespere's lines are equally applicable to this... | |
| Sir George Everest - India - 1839 - 164 pages
...those requisite to determine, in a manner worth a moment's thought, the elements of longitudinal arcs. Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While...azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes. Iii calm deep water, in short, where the surface is ruffled by a gentle breeze, land lubbers may be... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...rests among the dead. The swarm, that in thy noontide beam wera born? Gone to salute the rising morn. Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While...azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That,... | |
| Margaret Baron- Wilson - 1842 - 334 pages
...her care, If ere she hopes on earth one peaceful hour to share." THE DESTINIES OF WOMAN. CHAPTER I. " Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While...azure realm, In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes — Youth at the prow, and pleasure at the helm." Gray. THE first view of Richmond Hill usually proves... | |
| William Beattie - Abbeys - 1842 - 398 pages
...inglorious in its course, and disastrous at its close, the poet Gray has thus strikingly depicted : — " Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While...azure realm, In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed... | |
| Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 548 pages
...strange negligence and want of conduct. On Wednesday, on the question of the new-raised regiments, in • "Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows,...azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...rests among the dead, The swarm, that in the noon-tide beam were born ? Gone to salute the rising Morn. Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the Zephyr blows, While,...azure realm, In gallant trim, the gilded vessel goes ; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That,... | |
| English essays - 1844 - 646 pages
...reflect back the ideas of pleasure there embodied. The subject is taken from those lines of Gray: — " Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows. While,...azure realm, In gallant trim, the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm." • • • • • u 3 And never was argosy so jewel-freighted... | |
| William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...rests among the dead. The swarm, that in thy noon-tide beam were bom? Gone to salute the rising Morn. [Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the Zephyr blows,...azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway. That, hush'd... | |
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