 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...gaz d, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. EXTRACTS FROM BEATTIE. MELODIES OF MORN. BCT who the melodies of morn can tell ? The wild brook babbling... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumphed is forgot, — 688 DESCRIPTIVE POEMS. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where...eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where graybeard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talked with looks... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 pages
...gaz'd, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame; the very spot Where many a time he triumph'd...that house where nut-brown draughts inspir'd, Where grey-beard Mirth and smiling Toil retir'd, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1744 pages
...head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumphed , Beside yon straggling fence that skirts Low lies that house where nut-brown the way, draughts inspired,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumphed w is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured...life, and swallowed up in death!' The Genius being 220 Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where graybeard mirth and smiling toil retired,... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot, Where many a time he triumphed, e Cross 220 Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where gray-beard Mirth and smiling Toil... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...paints its object, and paints it distinctly.' The same may be said with equal justice of the following : Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where...that house, where nut-brown draughts inspir'd, Where grey-beard mirth, and smiling toil retir'd . . . This fine poetical inventory of the furniture, is... | |
 | Lawrence J. Taylor - Religion - 1995 - 308 pages
...Thus the author sounds the note of universal nostalgia for a way of life lost in the face of progress: Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where...once the sign-post caught the passing eye. Low lies the house where nut-brown draughts inspired. Where village statesmen talked with looks profound. And... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 650 pages
...could carry all he knew. 130 But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumphed, is forgot. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head...eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts 21 inspired, Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired Where village statesmen talked with looks... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumphed is forgot. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head...eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talked with looks... | |
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For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still ; While words of learned length, and thundering sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is... 
