 | Walter Percival - Annuals, American - 1848 - 382 pages
...sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stayed, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face; the dauntless child Stretched forth his little arms and smiled. This pencil take (she said) whose colors clear Richly paint... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...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...arms, and smil'd. This pencil take, she said, whose colors clear, Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy ! This can unlock... | |
 | Theology - 1854 - 562 pages
...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...Stretch'd forth his little arms and smil'd. This pencil lake (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the venial year; Thine too, these golden keys, immortal... | |
 | Charles Knight - England - 1851 - 492 pages
...sun and summer gale, In thy grecn lap was Nature's Darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face...smil'd. ' This pencil take,' she said, ' whose colours elear Richly paint the verual year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy ! This can unlock the... | |
 | Charles Knight - England - 1851 - 492 pages
...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...dauntless child Stretch'd forth his little arms, and smll'd. ' This pencil take,' she said, ' whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 pages
...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 little arms and smiled. " This pencil take," she said, " whose colors clear Richly... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...Mother did unveil Her aweful face : The dauntless Child Stretch'd forth his little arms, and smiled. This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly...immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horrour that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears. III. 2. Nor second... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...summer-gale, In thy6 green lap was Nature's Darling7 laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, 85 with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:...long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moa smiled. This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : 90 1 the path... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1926 - 392 pages
...early hand." Gray, in his " Progress of Poesy " (1757), imagines. Nature as saying to Shakespeare : "Thine too these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horronr that, and thrilling Pears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.'" Johnson, with whom... | |
 | Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1926 - 206 pages
...Mother did unveil Her aweful face : The dauntless Child Stretch'd forth his little arms, and smiled. This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : go * Progress of Poetry from Greece to Italy, and from Italy to England. Chaucer was not unacquainted... | |
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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, and thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. 
