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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... "
A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands - Page 391
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the sable garb of wo, 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. ' Hark, how each giant-oak,...
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The Works of Thomas Gray, Esq

Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 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. ' Hark, how each giant-oak,...
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Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain ...

John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...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. ' Harfc, how each giant oak,...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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 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,...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 100

English essays - 1830 - 714 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 matter's hand, and prophet's fire* Struck the deep sorrows of hit lyre." Mr. Knight's Greek, as quoted...
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A Descriptive, Explanatory, and Critical, Catalogue of Fifty of the Earliest ...

John Landseer - Painting - 1834 - 534 pages
...performance. It has been said that Gray caught the sublime idea of his impassioned Bard, who, " —(Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air) —with a master's hand and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre," from some work of...
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Letters. Papers in the Connoisseur. Fragments of a commentary on Paradise lost

William Cowper - 1837 - 380 pages
...doubtless this line in his eye, when in the second stanza of his Ode entitled the Bard, he said, Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air. LINE 542. A shout that tore, fyc. Homer's is a noble shout of which he says in the last line of the...
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The Book of Nature

John Mason Good - Natural history - 1837 - 482 pages
...Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the eable gatb ut' wo, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose Ills beard and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a matter's hand and prophet's tire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. The detail of the prophecy is...
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Secret Societies of the Middle Ages

Thomas Keightley - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1837 - 428 pages
...to warn the French monarch. These arriving in time, the former were discovered, on which the " Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air, ' by Milton's " Imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind."...
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Secret Societies of the Middle Ages

Thomas Keightley - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1837 - 434 pages
...to warn the French monarch. These arriving in time, the former were discovered, on which the " Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air, ' by Milton's " Imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind."...
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