 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...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 desert cave, S'shs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'erthec, oh king ! their... | |
 | Evan Jones - 1810 - 176 pages
...discrimination. . ' THE BARD. CHAP. I. • '- Rob'd in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood : And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. (,'ja* IjOUD howled the hollow blast, as it swept through the lofty cedars of the mountain Cwrn Ysom;... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...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. GRAY'S Odes. Beauty. In wit, as nature, what affects our hearts, Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts:... | |
 | William Bingley - 1814 - 572 pages
...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. From hence we returned to the road, and proceeded onward over a mountainous, though not either very... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...the poet stood ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air) 20 And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. NOTES. Ver. 15. On a rock, whose haughty brow] So Homer, II. T. ver. 151 : 'E# ep xaXAixoXwvijj. And... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...haggard eyes the poet stood. Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air, And with a master's hand, 'and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre." The Bard is represented standing In black robes on a rock that hung over the river Conway. Haughty... | |
 | England - 1854 - 800 pages
...they would harmonise with the sunset view of distant fields, that we had glanced at just before. " Hark, how each giant oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! " That one who loved mountains, and freqnented them, should pnt a string of unmeaning words like... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Conduct of life - 1817 - 432 pages
...eyes tini 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. Let the living muses speak for themselves ; I have all the warmth of a friend, but not the presumption... | |
 | John Hughes - Druids and druidism - 1818 - 378 pages
...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. But still there are not wanting a few among the mountains of Cambria, possessed of the poetic flame.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Strearo'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air) And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck...O'er thee, oh king ! their hundred arms they wave, ' Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe; * Vocal no more, since Cambria's fatal day, ' To high-born... | |
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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 Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's... 
