 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...high, His listless length, at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that bubbles by. 27. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring...his wayward fancies, he would rove ; Now, drooping, woeful, wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, or cross'd in hopeless love. 28. One morn, I miss'd... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1853 - 200 pages
...Muttering his wayward fancies, he would rove ; Now drooping, woeful, wan, like one forlorn, XXV&& " One morn, I miss'd him on the 'custom'd hill. Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came, — nor yet beside the rill, XXfiX " The next, with dirges due, in sad... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 pages
...13. 15. " He lay along Tinder an oak, whose antique root peep'd o-ut " Hard by yon wood, now smifing as in scorn. Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping, woful-wan, like one forlorn, Or eraz'd with care, or eross'd in hopeless love. " One morn I miss'd... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove; Now drooping, woeful, wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd...the 'custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he. " The... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...wayward fancies he would rove, Now drooping woful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or crossed in hopeless lov'e. "One morn I miss'd him on the 'custom'd hill. Along the heath, and near his favourite tree, Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he ; A... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1854 - 102 pages
...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. . ^-ЧТЯГ, -'-I, . . =КГ " ' '..'.-•,--, " Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring...his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping, woful-wan, like one forlorn, ( )r craz'd witli care, or cross'd in hopeless love. " One morn I miss'd... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 422 pages
...the nearest he comes to filling a role within the rural society is as the village idiot: Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove; Now drooping, woeful-wan,...Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love. This "rustic" poet too is an outsider, rapt in himself like Gray in the churchyard, yet distanced from... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. 'Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove, Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, or cross'd in hopeless love. 'One morn I miss'd... | |
 | Stephanie Sandler - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 388 pages
...now smiling as in scorn, 105 "Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he wou'd rove, "Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, "Or craz'd with care, or cross'd...hill, "Along the heath and near his fav'rite tree; i io "Another came; nor yet beside the rill, "Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he, "The next with... | |
 | Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 350 pages
...so high, His listless Length at Noontide wou'd he stretch, And pore upon the Brook that babbles by. "Hard by yon Wood, now smiling as in Scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward Fancies he wou'd rove, Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with Care, or cross'd in hopeless... | |
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There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. "Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies... 
