 | 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 its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 pages
...peep of dawn « Brushing with hasty steps the dews away , « To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. «There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, « That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high , « His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, « And pore upon the... | |
 | 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 its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...labour done, Oft as the woodlark piped her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun." " 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...the peep of dawn, Brushing, with hasty steps, the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 470 pages
...Torriano's Diet. * Barbed arrows. 5 Gray, in his Elegy, has availed himself of this passage : — ' 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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. '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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 100 "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... | |
 | George Hughes - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 274 pages
...fame unknown" began to be grafted onto descriptions of landscapes. Of Gray's youth it was said that "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... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. "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... | |
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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. 
