 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...labour done, Oft as the woodlark piped her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun." " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes...babbles by. " Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, 105 Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove; Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the' nnhononrM dead, * * Dost in these lines their artless tale relate...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. " Him have we seen the greenwood side along, While o'er the heath we hied, our labour done, Oft as... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirits shall inquire thy fate — Haply some hoary-headed...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. ' Hard bj' yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping,... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...spirit shall inquire thy fate : Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, « Oft have we scen him àt the peep of dawn « Brushing with hasty steps the...And pore upon the brook that babbles by. « Hard by von wood, now smiling as in scorn, « Muttering his wayward fancies, he would rove; «Now drooping,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 476 pages
...Torrmno's Diet. * Barbed arrows. & Gray, in his Elegy, has availed himself of this passage : — ' There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.' 6 ' Sancins at quadrupes nota intra tecta refugit Successitque gemens stabulis ; questuque cruentus... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 472 pages
...Torriano's Diet. 4 Barbed arrows. 5 Gray, in his Elegy, has availed himself of this passage :— ' There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.' '' ' Saucius at quadrupes nota intra tecta refugit Saccessitque gemens stabulis ; questnque cruentus... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...the voice of Nature cries; Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless...his wayward fancies, he would rove, ' Now drooping, woful wan, like one forlorn, * Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love. ' One morn I miss'd... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary -headed swain may say, " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawu Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the...babbles by. " Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, M utt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
...away, TO meet the sun upon the upland lawn. " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beach, That wreaths its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length...his wayward fancies, he would rove ; Now drooping, woful wan ! like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love. " One morn I missed... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...by lonely •contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate. Haply, some hoary headed swain may say, " Oft have we seen him at the peep...babbles by. Hard by yon wood, now smiling, as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove; Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd... | |
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There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. 
