 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...lines their artless tale relate, If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit should inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may...dews away, " To meet the sun upon the upland lawn, &c." Nothing can be conceived more truly ridiculous, in reading this passage, than quitting the melancholy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd ceed ¿he rest of all her race srailing as in scorn. Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove, Now drooping woful wan, like one... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...spirit shall inquire thy fate : Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, « Oft have we seen him àt the peep of dawn « Brushing with hasty steps the...beech, « That wreathes its old fantastic roots so higli, « His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, « And pore upon the brook that babbles... | |
 | Nathan Drake (M.D.) - 1824 - 656 pages
...very spirit of the Roman bard, has given us of his minstrel-youth " to fortune and to fame unknown." " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by." It is the pre-<lisposition which scenery of this kind, and at such an hour, gives to the empire of... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1824 - 658 pages
...very spirit of the Roman bard, has given us of his minstrel-youth " to fortune and to fame unknown." " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by." It is the pre-disposition which scenery of this kind, and at such an hour, gives to the empire of fancy... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1824 - 670 pages
...spirit of the Roman bard, has given us of his minstrel-youth " to fortune and to fame unknown." « " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by." It is the pre-disposition which scenery of this kind, and at such an hour, gives to the empire of fancy... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thec, who, mindful of the unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate,...noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that bubble.s by. Ifard by yon wood, now smiling, as in scorn, JIutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...relate ; If, chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply same hoary-headed swain may say, " Oft have we seen him...noon-tide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that bubbles by. Hard by yon wood, now smiling, as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies, he would rove... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If ehanee, by lonely eontemplation st unknown, What need a man forestall his date of...fear, How bitter is sueh self-delusion ! I do not beeeh, That wreathes its old fantastie roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he streteh,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...artless tale relate ; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, 95 Some kindred spirit shall enquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "...the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn : 100 we wished to be remembered by them in our absence : this would be expressed clearer, if the metaphorical... | |
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E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain... 
