 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn finishing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the Sun upon...nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots sn high. His listlos length at noontide would he stretch, And \юге upon the brook that bubbles by.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...chiusi Kimaucr doppo noi pien di faville. Petrarch, Son. 169. Haplv some hoary-headed swain may sav, " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing...steps the dews away To meet the Sun upon the upland lu\\n. " There at the foot of yonder nodding beocli That wreathes its old fantastic rooi.- so Irgh.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 680 pages
...swain may say, " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn &m*hin; with hasty steps the dews away Tu meet the Sun upon the upland lawn. " There at the...nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so hish, His listless length at noon-tide would be stretch. And pore upon the brook that babbles by. "... | |
 | Andrew M'Kenzie - 1810 - 194 pages
...sure "Thou shall abide!" REFLECTIONS ON A BROOK. '• There at the foot of yonder nodding beach, " That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high ; "...noontide would he stretch, " And pore upon the brook that bubbles by." GRAY. LET others join the thoughtless crowd, Where noisy mirth resounds aloud, And laugh... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...herd, Full of the pasture, jumps along by him. And never stays to greet him ; Ay, quoth Jaques, [7] " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech " That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. " His listkss length at noon-tide would be stretch. "' And pore upon the brook that babbles by." Gray's Elegy.... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall enquire thy fate. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, " Oft have we seen...at the peep of dawn " Brushing with hasty steps the dew away, " To meet the sun upon the upland l«wn. •« There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...morning with me: oft have these pain. visitants of the day-break met me, -as the poet sings it, At tlie peep of dawn, Brushing, with hasty steps, the dews...away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. There, while the morning lark alone has accompanied the song of praise, have I, in all the joyous tranquillity... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed Swain may say, 'Oft have we seen...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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...tale relate; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen...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... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 304 pages
...Gray's swain: If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen...the dews away "To meet the sun upon the upland lawn [" P "Mark'd them for his own" likewise echoes the phrasing of the Epitaph—"And Melancholy marked... | |
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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... 
