 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...couch'd his quivering lance. 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 fire, Struck... | |
 | John Barber - Elocution - 1828 - 310 pages
...couch'd his quivering lance. 2 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 Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air, And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pages
...haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eye, the poet stood. Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air." Of these lines, the two first present a picture which the imagination naturally views from below ;... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pages
...JiaugJity brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eye, the poet stood. Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air." Of these lines, the two first present a picture which the imagination naturally views from below; the... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...couch'd his quivering lance. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Slream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air,) And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...cbuch'd his quivering lanceOn a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd 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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1830 - 736 pages
...represented, viz. : • . " 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 fire, Struck... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...couched his quivering lance. On a rock« whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed ts whispering from the ground A rateful earnest uf t — -Alliance of Ed heard, and hoary hair Streamed, like an eteor, to the troubled air — And with a master's hand, and... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1831 - 482 pages
...a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conn-ay's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of wo, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard and hoary hair Strenm'd, like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand and propnet'a fire Struck the... | |
 | John Landseer - Painting - 1834 - 534 pages
...impassioned Bard, who, " —(Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air) —with a master's hand and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre," from some work of Art which he saw whilst in Italy. I forget what; but probably the Moses of Parmegiano,... | |
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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... 
