 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1853 - 200 pages
...they fly, Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gather'd fragrance fling. Where'er the oaks thick branches stretch A broader browner shade. Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech Beside some water's rushy brink With me the muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state)... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pages
...stretch A broader browner shade, Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, i Beside some water's rushy brink /' With me the Muse shall sit, and think omnia." Also in the Pervigil. Vener. v. 13: " Ipsa gemmis purpurantem pingit annum floribus." Pope... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...whispering pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gathered fragrance fling. Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader,...think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardor of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1854 - 632 pages
...occupation at Burnham five years before, shows how closely the verse corresponded with the reality. ' "Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader...brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...occupation at Burnham five years before, shows how closely the verse corresponded with the reality : Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader,...glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muee shall §it, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardor of the crowd, How... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1854 - 400 pages
...to go near him, and hastened back to the house. CHAPTER XVII. With me the Muse shall sit and think How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great. GBAY. BEFORE the end of another fortnight they were settled in a house in Belgravia. Kate had found... | |
 | 1854 - 622 pages
...frantic ways, and engaged in the pursuit of intellectual and spiritual pleasure, we — " Sit and think How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great." Let me never be deprived of solitude and books. At the early hour of morning let me seek retirement,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...whispering pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gather'd fragrance fling. Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader,...browner shade, Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-eanopies the glade," Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - Medical - 1855 - 438 pages
...conversation, restrained by no fashionable conventionals, and clouded by no remembered cares. They walked Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader,...browner shade ; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'ercanopied the glade. Among the members of Colonel Mansfield's family •was Harriet Sisson, a sister's... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...; Where'er the rude and moss-grown heech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy hrink, With me the muse shall sit and think, (At ease reclined...how little, are the proud, How indigent the great. Still is the toiling hand of care ; The panting herds repose, Yet, hark ! how, through the peopled... | |
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Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader, browner shade, Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease... 
