I'd weep the world to such a strain, As it should deluge once again ; " But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies, More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes ; I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds. Montrose and the Covenanters - Pagina 521door Mark Napier - 1838Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Samuel Pepys - 1854 - 494 pagina’s
...beginning of Montrose's verses on the execution of Charles I., which Pepys had probably set to music : — Great, good, and just, could I but rate My grief and thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world to such a strain That it should deluge once again. But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pagina’s
...redeemed. Great, good, and just ! could I but rate My grief to thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world to such a strain As it should deluge once again ; But...thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes, I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thy epitaph... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1855 - 510 pagina’s
...Great, good, and just ! could I but rate My griefs, and thy too rigid fate ; I'd weep the world to such a strain, As it should deluge once again ; But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies, f More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes ; I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1855 - 478 pagina’s
...execntion of Charles I., which Pepys had prohably set to music : — Great, good, and just, could I bnt rate My grief and thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world to such a strain That it should deluge once again. But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies... | |
| Mark Napier - 1856 - 584 pagina’s
...in the chamber, in this metrical form : — " GREAT, GOOD, and JUST, could I but rate My grief with thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world in such a strain...once again : But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplici More from Briareus' hands, than Argus' eyes, I'll sing thine obsequies with trumpet sounds,... | |
| Henrietta Maria (consort of Charles iIB, king of Gt. Britain.) - 1857 - 470 pagina’s
...— " Great God and just, could I but rate My griefs and Thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world to such a strain, As it should deluge once again. But...thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies, More from Briareus' hand than Argus' eyes, I'll sing thine obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thine epitaph... | |
| James Graham Marquis of Montrose, Henry Winsor - 1861 - 416 pagina’s
...Marquis, he found the well-known verses : — " Great, Good and Just ! could I but rate \ My grief with thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world in such a strain That it should deluge once again : But since thy loud-voiced blood demands supplies More from Briareus-hands... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 pagina’s
...the execution of Charles the First were then popular. Pepys had, it is supposed, set them to music. ' Great, good, and just, could I but rate My grief and thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world to such a strain, That it would deluge once again. But since thy long-tongued blood demands supplies... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 484 pagina’s
...my office ; but I could discern that Hawley had a mind that I would get to be Clerk of the Council, Great, good, and just, could I but rate My grief and thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world to such a strain That it should deluge once again. But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1868 - 614 pagina’s
...devotion to has lady-love, half like devotion to a saint, as Montrose did — ' Great, good, and lust, could I but rate My grief, and thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world in ouch a strain, As it should deluge once again.' And, oh !' cried he, with sudden vehemence, ' how one... | |
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