| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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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