 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, ihe good — Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages pasl, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd...pensive quietness between The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green — and, poured round... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 602 pages
...a love of Nature and of books. THE DEPARTURE. -" Tboa símil lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth —...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sephulchre." BRYANT. AND shrink ye from the way To the spirits' distant shore ? Earth's mightiest men,... | |
 | American poetry - 1822 - 298 pages
...:nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent : Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth —...pensive quietness between The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green — and, poured round... | |
 | 1822 - 764 pages
...— nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent : Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth —...ages past, All in one- mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbM and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between The venerable... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1822 - 824 pages
...Thou shah lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the carth-i-the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages...hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the rales Stretching in pensive quietness between The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty,... | |
 | 1822 - 858 pages
...— nor conld'st thou wish Couch more magnificent : Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world— with kings, The powerful of the earth —...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All iu one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-rihb'd and ancient as the sun,.— the vales Stretching in... | |
 | Arminianism - 1879 - 1042 pages
...that any one has more vividly described the Earth as 'the great tomb of man.' ' The hills, Hock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in...pensive quietness between The venerable woods ; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green, and, pourcJ round all,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...— nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth —...quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and, poured round all,... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...— nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent: thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth —...pensive quietness between The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks Thai make ihe meadows green — and, poured round... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...— nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent : thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth —...pensive quietness between The venerable woods — rivers that move • In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green — and, poured round... | |
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Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green... 
