 There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.  Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 147by Thomas Gray - 1768 - 187 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...the peep of dawn, Brushing, with hasty steps, the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. ' There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 472 pages
...Torriano's Diet. 4 Barbed arrows. 5 Gray, in his Elegy, has availed himself of this passage :— ' There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 470 pages
...Torriano's Diet. * Barbed arrows. 5 Gray, in his Elegy, has availed himself of this passage : — ' There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn, " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...peep of dawn, ' Brushing, with hasty steps, the dews away, ' To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. ' There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, ' That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, ' His listless length at noontide would he stretch, ' And pore upon the brook... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...at the peep of dawu Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...dawn, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old, fantastic roots so high, I " Hard by yon wood, now smiling, as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...peep of dawi\ ' ' Brushing, with hasty steps, the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lavm. " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old, fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the hrook... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...the peep of dawn, Brushing, with hasty steps, the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn; There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And -pore upon the brook... | |
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