 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...OF POESY. PINDARIC. I. 1. Awake, JEolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's ' harmonious springs A thousand rills...majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres'2 golden reign : Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous, see it pour : The rocks... | |
 | Concordia society - Glees, catches, rounds, etc - 1852 - 108 pages
...all thy trembling ftrings, From Helicon's harmonious fprings, A thoufand rills their mazy progrefs take; The laughing flowers, that round them blow,...Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich ftream of mufic winds along, Deep, majeftic, fmooth, and ftrong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres'... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1852 - 650 pages
...p. 337. " Felices aninue gens jam dcfuncta pencils 7/umaiiij." — Vida's Chriftiad. lib. vi. 870. " The laughing flowers that round them blow Drink life and fragrance as they flow." Ode on the Progreu of Potty. It seems almost a pity to dissect these marvellously beautiful lines.... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...thunder." " They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow Through Eden took their solitary way." " Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong" " From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder !" Q. Who have been most distinguished... | |
 | 1853 - 796 pages
...we may well apply the beautiful lines of Gray in the commencement of his " Progress of Poesy:" — " From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills...Through verdant vales and Ceres' golden reign ; Now rushing down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous, see it pour; The rocks and nodding groves rebellow... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 pages
...Ode to Gray on his From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take : -s" The laughing flowers, that round them blow, « Drink...music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, more rapid and irresistible course, when swoln and hurried away by the confliet of tumultuous passions.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pages
...Literary Magaz. 1757, p. 422 ; at p. 466 of the same work, is an Ode to Gray on his Pindaric Odes. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills...take : The laughing flowers, that round them blow, s Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...jEolian lyre, awake,1 And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs 3 A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing...them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. 1 "Hla facuIUca were endowed with uncommon strength; he thought with a manly nervousness ; and he penetrated... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 pages
...passage would be utterly obscure. 151. Gray thus finely describes the flow of Music from Helicon : " Now the rich stream of Music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Thro' verdant vales, and Ceres' golden reign, Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous,... | |
 | George Monkland (of Bath.) - 1855 - 142 pages
...delicacy and reserve by pointing to the many living examples who delight by their taste and execution, As the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong; To glance at by-gone days, however much is there in the retrospection to awaken melancholy sensations... | |
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Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of... 
