| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink, With me the Muse shall sit, and think ' At ease reclin'd 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... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 508 pages
...Haply fome hoary-headed Swain may fay, " Oft have we feen him atthepecpof d:iwn " Brufhing with haily fteps the dews away " To meet the fun upon the upland...foot of yonder nodding beech " That wreathes its old lanuftic roots fo high, " His lidiéis length at noontide would lie (treten, " Aüd pore upon the brook... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...peep of dawn, * Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, * 1 o meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 4 '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... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...the high brow of yonder hanging lawn. After which, in the first manuscript, followed this stanza : " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, " That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, " His listless length at noontide would he stretchi " And pore upon the brook... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1805 - 456 pages
...hoary-headed fwain may fay, • Oft have we feen him at the peep of dawn, ' Brufhing with hafty fteps the dew away, • To meet the fun upon the upland lawn. « There at the foot of yonder nodding beedi, • That wreathes its old fancaftic roots fo high, « His liftlefs length at noontide would... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 322 pages
...broad arrow with the forked head " Misses," &c. Steevens. 7 — — as he lay along Under an oak, &c. " 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...have we seen him, 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... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...have we seen him, at the peep of dawn, ' Brushing with ha.sty 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 lie stretch, ' * And pore upon the... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...have we seen him 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... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...have we seen him, 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... | |
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