 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 pages
...number, in Gray's noble Ode : " Bobed 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 fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre." Whence [came] the race of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...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 fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre : ' Hark how each giant oak and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 pages
...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 fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre : ' Hark how each giant oak and... | |
 | James White - Great Britain - 1855 - 308 pages
...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 mir) ; And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how... | |
 | John Trumbull - United States - 1856 - 208 pages
...the field, .&nd peasant guards, in rueful plight, March off our captured bands from fight; * Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air. Gray. f An American cant name for the British troops, taken from the color of their uniform. While... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - English language - 1857 - 336 pages
...And Milton, in " Paradise Lost :" — Gray has it : — " With haggard eyes the poet stood ; Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air." Campbell, in his " Pleasures of Hope," has also borrowed this simile : — " Where Andes, giant of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...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 fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how each giant oak,... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe. With haggard eyes the poet stooo ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air;) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how each giant-oak,... | |
 | James White - Great Britain - 1858 - 304 pages
...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 fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how each giant oak,... | |
 | Bernhard Freiherr von Tauchnitz - English literature - 1860 - 468 pages
...old Conway's foaming flood, Eobed 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 fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre : "Hark how each giant oak and... | |
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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... 
