 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...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 fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. , Sighs to the torrent's awful... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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) 3 The bauberk was a texture of steel ringlets, or rings interwoven, forming a coat of mail that sat... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 370 pages
...old Conway's foaming flood, Rnb'd 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 fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. Let the living muses speak for... | |
 | William Coxe - Artists - 1823 - 320 pages
...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 fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.* Among the excellencies of Parmegiano,... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Puet 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 fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark, how each giant-oak,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Conway's foaming flood, Kob'd in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose In- Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worship'd st master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. • Hark, how each giant oak,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...depends mainly upon this, that it was " with gems and emblaz'd." 535 £40 golden lustre rich Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air. Gray'* Bard, —Andes, giant of the western star, His meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd Looks from... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...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 ;) 20 Vet. 14. " To arms!" cried Mortimer, and couch'd his quivering lance.] Edmond de Mortimer, Lord... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...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 fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. Ver. 11. of Snowdon's shaggy... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1826 - 454 pages
...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 fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. The detail of the prophecy is... | |
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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... 
