...has; but the metaphor is carried further, and improved by the retrospective beauty of derivation : " On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood." The " united eyebrow" of the ancients was by them regarded as a rare beauty : when applied to the sylvan...

...dying prophecy, as the latter was descending the shaggy steep of Snowdon, is exquisite and inimitable. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's...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...

...the latter was descending the shaggy steep of Snowdon, is exquisite and inimitable. On a rock, who« haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of wo, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose Ins beard and hoary hair Btream'd, like a meteor to the...

...whole performance. It has been said that Gray caught the sublime idea of his 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...

...had doubtless this line in his eye, when in the second stanza of his Ode entitled the Bard, he said, Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air. LINE 542. A shout that tore, fyc. Homer's is a noble shout of which he says in the last line of the...

...could not doubt that Gray had contemplated the same scene, from nearly the same point of view — ' On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood,' so exactly, at that hour, did the sublime features of the prospect awake sentiments in unison with...

...stood aghast in speechless trance : " To arms !" cried Mortimer, and couched his quivering lance. II. N a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's...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...

...not excepted. (>> I. 2. " 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...hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled airj And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark how...

...eyes the Poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled airj And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark how eacli giant-oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee, O King I...

...Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the eable gatb ut' wo, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose Ills beard and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a matter's hand and prophet's tire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. The detail of the prophecy is...