| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1770 - 136 pages
...Haply fome hoary-headed Swain may fay, * Oft have we feen him at the peep of dawn * Brufhing with hafly fteps the dews away ' To meet the fun upon the upland...nodding beech * That wreathes its old fantaftic roots fo high,' * His liftlefs length at noontide would he ftretch, ' And pore upon the brook that babbles... | |
| English literature - 1773 - 394 pages
...inquire thy fate, Haply Come hoary-headed Swain may fay, Oft have we feen him at the peep of dawn Bruming with hafty fteps the dews away To meet the fun upon...foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantallic roots fo high, His liftlefs length at noon-tide would he ftretch,. And pore upon the brook... | |
| Robert Lloyd - 1774 - 264 pages
...4 Huic Haply fome hoary-headed fwain may fay, " Oft have we feen him at the peep of dawn " Brufhing with hafty fteps the dews away " To meet the fun upon...nodding beech That wreathes its old fantaftic roots fo high, His liftlefs length at noon-tide would he ftretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.... | |
| Robert Lloyd - 1774 - 260 pages
...4 Huic Haply fome hoary-headed fwain may fay, " Oft have we feen him at the peep of dawn " Brufhing with hafty fteps the dews away " To meet the fun upon...nodding beech " That wreathes its old fantaftic roots fo high, " His liftlefs length at noon-tide would he ftretch, " And pore upon the brook that babbles... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1775 - 168 pages
...may fay, ' Oft have we feen him, at the peep of dawn, ' Brufliing wilh hafly fteps the dews away 1 To meet the fun upon the upland lawn. ' There, at...foot of yonder nodding beech, ' That wreathes its old funtaftic roots fo high, ' His liillefs length at noon-tide would he ftretch, ' And pore upon the brook... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1778 - 182 pages
...fate, Haply fome hoary-headed fwain may fay, ' Oft have we feen him at the peep of dawn, * Brufhing with hafty fteps the dews away ' To meet the fun upon...yonder nodding beech, ' That wreathes its old fantaftic root fo high, ' His liftlefs length at noon-tide would he flretch, * And pore upon the brook that babbles... | |
| John Wesley - Biography - 1786 - 738 pages
...fome hoary-headed fwain may fay, " Oft have we feen him at the peep of dawn Brufhing with hafty flcps the dews away, To meet the fun upon the upland lawn. There at the foot of yonder nodding beecli, That wreathes its old fantaflic roots fo high, His lifllefs length at noontide would he flretch,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 456 pages
...chiufi • c ; Rimaner doppo noi pien di faville." PETRARCH. SON. di iaville. PETRARCH. SON. 169. " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech " That wreathes its old fantaftic roots fo high, " His liftlefs length at noontide would he ftretch, " And pore upon the brook that babbles... | |
| Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...fay, " Oft have we feen him at the peep of dawn " Erufhing with hafty fteps the dews away, " To me«t the fun upon the upland lawn. " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beach • " That wreathes its old fantaftic roots fo high, "- Hard by yon wood, now fmiling as in (corn,... | |
| English periodicals - 1781 - 512 pages
...fome hoary-headed fwain may fay, ' Oft have we feen him, at the peep of dawn, ' Brufhing with hafly fteps the dews away, ' To meet the fun upon the upland...the foot of yonder nodding beech, • That wreathes it's old fantaftick roots fo high, ' His liftlefs length at noon-tide would he ftretch, ' And pore... | |
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