On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,) And with a master's hand and prophet's... The Book of Nature - Seite 371von John Mason Good - 1826Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 Seiten
...stood aghast in speechless trance : "To arms!" cried Mortimer, and couch'd his quiv'ring lance. I. 2. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. Ver. 11. of Snowdon's shaggy side] Snowdon was a name given hi the Saxons to that mountainous tract... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 Seiten
...stood aghast in speechless trance : "To arms!" cried Mortimer, and couch'd his quiv'ring lance. I. 2. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's...of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose bis beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air) And with a master's hand, and... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 358 Seiten
...* stood aghast in speechless trance : To arms ! cried Mortimer J-, and couch'd his quivering lance. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, llob'd in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; ( Loose his beard, and hoary hair... | |
| 1822 - 418 Seiten
...aghast in speechless trance ! " To arms!" cried Mortimer, and couch'd his quiv'ring lance. I.— 2. On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. , Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee, O King ! their hundred arms they wave, Revenge... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 284 Seiten
...believed original, one at Florence, the other at Paris. ' Shone, like a meteor, streaming to the wind. And with a Master's hand, and Prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark, how each giant-oak, and desert-cave, Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath! O'er thee,... | |
| Richard Cumberland - 1822 - 372 Seiten
...Timotheus in the Feast of Alexander, I contemplate with awful delight Gray's enthusiastic bard — On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 Seiten
...stood aghast} in speechless trance : To arms ! cried Mortimer, § and couch'd his quivering lance. 1.2. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood : (Loose his beard, and hoary hair... | |
| William Coxe - 1823 - 320 Seiten
...also to one of our most celebrated lyric poets, the no less animated description of the British Bard: On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.* Among the excellencies of Parmegiano, we may enumerate the appropriate and harmonious tone of his colouring;... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 754 Seiten
...Gray's enthusiastic bard — On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet...prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. Let the living muses speak for themselves ; I have all the warmth of a friend, but not the presumption... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 416 Seiten
...for Dryden. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old'Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the snble garb of woe. With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Sfream'd like a meteor to the troubled air) And with a master's band and prophet's fire Struck the... | |
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