 | Thomas Gray - 1870 - 72 pages
...excellent lyric. It is founded on a tradition of Wales, that Edward I., while engaged in conquering the country, ordered all the bards that fell into his hands to be put to death. The original plan of the work is thus recorded in one of the author's common-place books:... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 602 pages
...affinity." There is a tradition current in Wales, that King Edward I., when he had completed the conquest of that country, ordered all the bards that fell into his hands to be put to death ; upon this tradition Gray has founded his famous and beautiful Pindaric ode, The Bard, beginning—... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1872 - 458 pages
..." Hark, how each giant oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! • This ode is founded on a tradition current in Wales, that Edward the First, when he completed the conquest of that country, ordered all the Bards that fell into hia hands... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1873 - 306 pages
...This Ode is founded on a tradition current in Wales, that Edward I., when he completed the conquest of that country, ordered all the bards that fell into his hands to be put to death. " RUIN seize thee, ruthless King ! Confusion on thy banners wait ! Though fanned by Conquest's... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1876 - 424 pages
...the author tells us, on a tradition current in Wales that Edward I., when he completed the conquest of that country, " ordered all the bards that fell into his hands to be put to death." The last of the bards is made to address the king in a lofty strain of indignant invective,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1876 - 162 pages
...nothing in it peculiar ; it is a car in which any other rider may be placed." HOWARD I. THE BARD. " THIS ode is founded on a tradition current in Wales that Edward the First, when he completed the conquest of that country, ordered all the bards that fell into his hands... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pages
...— 1771), founded on a tradition, current in Wales, that Edward I., when ho completed the conquest of that country, ordered all the bards that fell into his hands to be put to death. The plan of the poem is as follows: — A bard, who ig the speaker, after lamenting the fate... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...wise. THE BARD. Founded on a tradition current in Wales, that Edward I., when he completed the conquest of that country, ordered all the bards that fell into his hands to be put to death. I. i. " Ruin seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy banners wait ; Though fanned by... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 510 pages
...This ode is founded on a tradition current in Wales, that Edward I., when he completed the conquest of that country, ordered all the bards that fell into his hands to lie put to death."—Gray. (2) Gloster—"Gilbert de Clare, surnamed the Bed, Earl of Gloucester and... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 pages
...an Ode at last. It is founded on a tradition of Wales, that Edward the First, after conquering the country, ordered all the bards that fell into his hands to be put to death. The original plan was preserved in one of the poet's commonplace books: — "The army of... | |
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Ode is founded on a tradition current in Wales, that Edward the First, when he completed the conquest of that country, ordered all the Bards that fell into his hands to be put to death. 
