 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...obtain her love. ' Prisoner in Windsor, he recounteth hispkasure there passed. [Abridged from 54 lines.] So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor...childish years did pass In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy : Where each sweet place returns a taste full sower! The large green courts, where we... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 468 pages
...Happy is he that can obtain her love. Prisoner in Windsor, he recounteth his pleasure there passed. So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor...a king's son my childish years did pass In greater feasts 3 than Priam's sons of Troy : Where each sweet place returns a taste full sower ! * The large... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 472 pages
...Happy is he that can obtain her love. Prisoner in Windsor, he recounteth his Pleasure there passed. So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor...a king's son my childish years did pass In greater feasts 3 than Priam's sons of Troy : Where each sweet place returns a taste full sower .'4 The large... | |
 | 1816 - 676 pages
...recollections of his friend RICHMOND, have a character of very considerable tenderness and beauty. " So cruel prison, how could betide, alas ! As proud...childish years did pass, In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy. " Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour. The large green courts where we were... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...care decays, and yet my sorrow springs. A PRISONER IN WINDSOR CASTLE, HE REFLECTS ON PAST HAPPINESS. So cruel prison how could betide, alas ! As proud...childish years did pass, In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy ; Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour. The large green courts, where we were... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...chivalrous character, and affords altogether an advantageous view of his powers and talents as a poet : " So cruel prison how could betide, alas ! As proud...childish years did pass, In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy. Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour ; The large green courts, where we were... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - Poets, English - 1824 - 132 pages
...Windsor, he wrote some graceful and touching verses, recounting "his pleasure there passed" — " when I, in lust and joy. With a king's son my childish years did pass, In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy ; Where each sweet place returns a tasteful sour, And the large green, where we were wont... | |
 | 1824 - 762 pages
...he wrote some graceful and touching verses, recounting ' his pleasure there passed' — " ' when I, With a king's son my childish years did pass, In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy ; Where each sweet place returns a tasteful sour, And the large green, where we were wont... | |
 | Windsor (Berkshire, England) - 1825 - 238 pages
...as the peculiar features of this kingly fortress, that our readers will excuse the digression :— So cruel prison how could betide, alas ! As proud...Troy : Where each sweet place returns a place full sower! The large green courts, where we wen: wont to hove, With eyes east op unto the Maiden's tower,... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - England - 1825 - 454 pages
...describing Windsor, I will quote the lines which he wrote during his captivity in the round tower. " So, cruel prison, how could betide, alas ! As proud...childish years did pass, In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy." * « * # In the situation of the poet, as Warton observes, nothing can be more natural... | |
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So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor? where I in lust and joy, With a King's son, my childish years did pass, In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy. 
