 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 sider
...hurry, to the field. • Ireland. • ODE VIII. THE DESCENT OF 0 D 1 N. From the Norse Tongue. TTPROSE the king of men with speed, *- And saddled straight his coal-black steed; Down the yawning steep he rode That leads to Hela's * drear abode. Him the Dog of Darkness spy'd; His... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 sider
...contemnendffi Mortis ; Hafniae, 1689, quarto, Lib. III. c. ii. p. 632. Upreis Odinn allda gautr, 8tc. UPROSE the king of men with speed, And saddled straight his coal-black steed : NOTES. * This Ode is much more literally translated than the preceding. The original title I have... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 sider
...Causis contemnendie Mortis ; Hafniic, 1689, quarto, p. 632. Upreis Odinn allilu gautr, Sfc. UPROSE the king of men with speed, And saddled straight his coal-black steed : Down the yawnins steep he rode, That leads to Hela's drear abode. Him the dog of darkness spied ;... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 sider
...BARTHOLINUS, DE r Minis CONTKMNEND.S MORTIS ; HAl'MK, 1689, QUABTO. Upreis Odinn al Ida gauir, &c. UPROSE the King of Men with speed, And saddled straight his coal-black steed Down the yawning steep he rode, That leads to Hela's * drear abode. Him the Dog of Darkness spied,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 sider
...Causis. contemnendse Mortis ; Hafniae, Ib89, (iuarto, p. 632. Uprels Qdinn alUa gautr, §c. UPROSE the king of men with speed, And saddled straight his coal-black steed : Down the yawninsr steep he rode, That leads to Hela's drear abode. Him the dog of darkness spied... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 sider
...sable steed. Hurry, hurry to the field. 4 Ireland. THE DESCENT OF ODIN'. FROM THE NORSE TONGUE. UPROSE the king of men with speed, And saddled straight his coal-black steed: Down the yawning steep he rode, That leads to Hela's drear abode'. Him the dog of darkness spied; His... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 sider
...De Causis contemnenda? Mortis ; Hafniic, 1689, quarto, p. 632. Upreis Odinn allda gautr, Sfc. UPROSE the king of men with speed, And saddled straight his coal-black steed : Down the yawning steep he rode, That leads to Hela's drear abode. Him the dog of darkness spied ;... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - 1831 - 394 sider
...and alarm. It is this passage which Gray has finely paraphrased in the lines beginning : — ' Uprose the king of men with speed, And saddled straight his coal-black steed ; Down the yawning steep he rode, That leads to Hela's dread abode.' But a more exact idea may be formed... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1851 - 318 sider
...Helga. The Dog of Darkness, similar to the Grecian Cerberus, guarded the entrance of Niflheim. Uprose the king of men with speed, And saddled straight his coal-black steed ; Down the yawning steep he rode, That leads to Hela's drear abode. Him the dog of darkness spied ;... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 354 sider
...ancient pieces of Scandinavian poetry extant. The translation is by Gray. The Descent of Odin. " Uprose the king of men with speed, And saddled straight his coal-black steed. Down the yawning steep he rode That leads to Hela's drear abode. Him the dog of darkness spied : His... | |
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UPROSE the King of Men with speed, And saddled straight his coal-black steed : Down the yawning steep he rode, That leads to Hela's drear abode. Him the Dog of Darkness spied, His shaggy throat he... 
