 | Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851
...thy trembling strings ! From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take : The laughing flowers that round them blow Drink life...strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres' golden reign : Headlong impetuous, see it pour : The rocks, and nodding groves, rebellow to the roar. Woods that... | |
 | 1851
...passages of splendid excellence. Sound never answered to sense more completely than in these lines : " Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic,...steep amain, Headlong, impetuous, see it pour, The vales and nodding groves re-bellow to the roar." His ode, " the Bard," has passages of • Literally,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 223 pages
...harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take : The laughing flowers that round them blow, 5 Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich...music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, and its more rapid and irresistible course when swola nnd hurried away by the conflict of tumultuous... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 319 pages
...thy trembling strings, From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow. Drink...The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar. The mood and tone varies with each stanza; there is deliberate rising and falling; the language sometimes... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1132 pages
...Poesy 23 From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: (1. 3—4) 24 Now the rich stream of Music winds along Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, (1. 7—8) 25 O Sovereign of the willing soul, Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs. Enchanting... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - Poetry - 1996 - 296 pages
...cumulative surge at the start of "The Progress of Poesy": A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink...majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales and Ceres's golden reign: Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous, see it pour: The rocks... | |
 | Helmut Krasser, Ernst A. Schmidt - Authors and readers - 1996 - 487 pages
...thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: 5 The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink...music winds along Deep, majestic, smooth and strong. Thro' verdant vales, and Ceres' golden reign: 1 0 Now rolling down the steep amain. Headlong, impetuous... | |
 | David Hill Radcliffe - Literary Collections - 1996 - 239 pages
...and burlesques Thomas Gray's "Progress of Poesy," written in imitation of the hero-praising Pindar: Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous,...The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar. (1757; ed. Lonsdale, 163) For too long, British poetry had neglected its epic quest to linger idly... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 718 pages
...thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink...The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar. (PTG 161-63) The 'mazy progress' of Gray's imagery and rhythm leads to an oddly onomatopoeic effect... | |
 | William Blake - Art - 2000 - 128 pages
...trembling firings. From Helicon's harmonious fprings A thoufand rills their mazy progrefs take: -t The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich ftream of mufic winds along, Deep, majeftic, fmooih, and ftrong, Thro' Thro' verdant vales, and Ceres'... | |
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Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream... 
