 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 480 pages
...impatient for a letter, though you will not have expected so much as this will announce. As I am not * " 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,... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...dead. * The swarm, that in thy noontide beam were born ? — ' 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, '... | |
 | Charles Miner - Sullivan's Indian Campaign, 1779 - 1845 - 614 pages
...romance. Contrasted with the ills that awaited them, the lines of Gray often occur to my mind : — " 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...before his father :" Gray. * Rising morn — ie the early part of Richard II's. reign. Fair laughs1 the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While, proudly...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... | |
 | mrs. George May - 1846 - 390 pages
...wherewith Anne contemplated the dangerous though brilliant career of Richard and his favourites : — " 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, Which,... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...rests among the dead. The swarm, that in the noontide beam were borne, 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 ;2 Regardless of the sleeping whirlwind's sway, That,... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...justing, and tournays." The court of his unhappy grandson, Richard II., is ominous of his fate : " 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, hush'd... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge. SHAKSPEARE. 4. Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While,...azure realm, In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 6. The sails were fill'd, and fair the light winds blew, As glad to bear him... | |
 | Joseph George Cumming - Geology - 1848 - 462 pages
...will remind us of the truthfulness of the metaphor which Gray's bard scratched out when he sang,— " 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, hush'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...robbed in his last moments by his courtiers. 1 Edward the Black Prince died some time before his father. 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,... | |
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Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the 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 in grim repose, expects... 
