 This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of joy ; Of horror that...  Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 46by Thomas Gray - 1775 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1856 - 586 pages
...The well-known lines of Gray are among his happiest efforts : — " Par from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : the dauntless child Stretch'd forth his... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Warwickshire (England) - 1857 - 210 pages
...Progress of Poesy," have been much and deservedly admired : — " Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon strayed. To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : the dauntless child Stretched forth his... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 444 pages
...Gray's noble lines about Shakspeare, in the " Progress of Poesy"— " Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid ; What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face ; the dauntless child Stretch'd forth his... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...of Shakspeare's childhood in Gray's " Progress of Poesy : " — " Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap, was nature's darling laid, What time where lucid Avon stray'd. To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face. The dauntless child Stretch'd forth his... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 440 pages
...Gray's noble lines about Shakspeare, in the " Progress of Poesy"— " Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid ; What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face ; the dauntless child Stretch'd forth his... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...delineation of the poetical characters of Shakspeare, Milton, and Dryden : Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon strayed, To him the mighty mother did unvail Her awful face : the dauntless child Stretched forth his... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1858 - 196 pages
...lost, f sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. in. i. Far from the sun and summer-gale, n thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : the dauntless child Stretch'd forth his... | |
 | Bernhard Freiherr von Tauchnitz - English literature - 1860 - 468 pages
...spirit lost, They sought, 0 Albion! next thy sea-encircled coast. Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray 'd, To him the mighty Mother did unveil Her awful face; the dauntless child Stretch'd forth his... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...flowers stuck upon her winding-sKe A WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. 1564—1616. Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : the dauntless child Streteh'd forth his... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1861 - 586 pages
...latter, in which physical and mental blindness are confounded : " Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon strayed, To him the mighty Mother did unveil Her awful face : the dauntless Child Stretched forth his... | |
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