 | Music - 1823 - 512 pages
...ludicrous, he has committed, by separating " torrents" from " awful," in the following passage : — Hark I how each giant oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! Will it be believed that, in the present enlightened age, these two words are disjoined by a minim... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...eyes the poet stood ; (Loose In- beard, and hoary hair, Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air) rship'd stocks and stones, Forget not; in thy book record their groans Who weave, Revenge on thee in hoarser murmura breathe; Vocal no more, since Cambria's fatal day, To high-born... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...eyes the Puet 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 igha to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee, oh king 1 their... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 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. ' Hark, how each giant-oak, and desert-cave Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee, oh king! their hundred... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1826 - 454 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. The detail of the prophecy is too long for quotation; but the following fragments, which form its opening... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 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. Ver. 11. of Snowdon's shaggy side] Snowdon was a name given by the Saxons to that mountainous tract... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...eyes the poet sto6d ; (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. 12, To Pandemonium the summons called By place or choice the worthiest : they anon With hundreds and... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 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. ' Hark, how each giant-oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee, oh King ! their... | |
 | John Barber - Elocution - 1828 - 310 pages
...the sable garb of woe With haggard eyes the poet stood Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air, And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck...to the torrent's awful voice beneath! " O'er thee O King! their hundred arms they wave, " Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe; "Vocal no more,... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 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. ' Harfc, how each giant oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee,... | |
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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... 
