| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Or the poetical characters of Shakspeare, Milton, and Dryden : — Far from the sun and summer gale, $ strayed, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : the dauntless child Stretched forth his... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...lost, They sought, O Albion ! next, thy sea-encircled coast. III. 1. 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... | |
| George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...spirit lost, They sought, O Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. III. 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... | |
| George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...spirit lost, They sought, O Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. III. 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... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1847 - 276 pages
...lost, They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. m. 1. 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 Percival - Annuals, American - 1848 - 382 pages
...Gray has so beautifully conjured up in his Progress of Poetry. " Far from the 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. • III. 2. " 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... | |
| Theology - 1854 - 562 pages
...two great poets, Sliakspere and Milton, and glances at Dryden. " 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 Knight - England - 1851 - 492 pages
...The well-known lines of Gray are among his happiest efforts : — " 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... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 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... | |
| |