 | Biography - 1798 - 552 pages
...picture of Gray, in which he paints the venerable figure of one of the 'Welch poets : -. ..." Loofe his beard and hoary hair, '' Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air." If it happened to rain, he would make l.ii attendants get into the poft-chaife, obfervmg, " that they... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1798 - 130 pages
...old Conway's foaming ftood, Rob'd in the fable garb of Wo, With haggard eyes the poet ftood ; (Loofe his beard, and hoary hair* Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,f) 40 § Snowdon was a name given by the Saxons to that mountainous track which the Welfii themfelves... | |
 | Public characters - 1799 - 422 pages
...were, the piaure of Gray, in which he paints the venerable figure of one of the Welch poets : " Loofe his beard and hoary hair, " Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air." If it happened to rain, he would make his attendants get into the poflchaife, obferving, " that they... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...aghast (i) in speechless trance : To arms ! cried Mortimer (k), and couch'd his quiv'ring lance. I. 2. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...aghast (i) in speechless trance: To arms! cried Mortimer (k), and couch'd his quiv'ring lance. I. 2. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming llr,:>e , Rob'd in the sable garb of wo, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard,...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre." It is sufficient to say, that West has done full justice to so noble a subject, and has been animated... | |
 | 1801 - 606 pages
...pifture of Gray, in which he paints the venerable figure of one oi' the Welch poets : — — " Loofe his beard and hoary hair, " Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air." be rendered tepid by means of the rays of the fun only 5 it is immediately adjoining to his houfe,... | |
 | 1802 - 314 pages
...we leave this fubject, we are tempted to obferve, that an admired paflage in « The Bard," " Loofe his beard and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air," has always appeared to us as an attempt, which, having overfhotths fublime, had fallen into the burlefque.... | |
 | British essayists - 1803 - 300 pages
...Timotheus in the Feast of Alexander, I contemplate with awful delight Gray's enthusiastic bard — On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the sable garb.of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair... | |
 | William Wirt - United States - 1804 - 120 pages
...picture of his bard : 9s *-58<-fe whose haughty brow frowns o'er old Conway^s foaming flood, rob'd in the sable garb of woe, with haggard eyes the poet...stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air '.) and with a Poet's hand and Prophet's fire. struck the deep sorrow en his lyre. Guess my surprise when, on my arrival... | |
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On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air) And with a master's hand, and prophet's... 
