 | Sir John Denham - English poetry - 1928 - 386 pages
...brilliant example of second thoughts in the English language." From Shakespeare to Pope, p. 91. Gray. "Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth and strong." Progress of Poetry, 11. 7-8. Hallam, Henry. "The comparison by Denham between the Thames and his own... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Poesy 23 From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: (1. 3—4) 24 Now the rich stream of Music winds along Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, (1. 7—8) 25 O Sovereign of the willing soul, Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs. Enchanting... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 304 pages
...looking back at Gray and remembering the cumulative surge at the start of "The Progress of Poesy": A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing...majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales and Ceres's golden reign: Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous, see it pour: The rocks... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - Authors and readers - 1996 - 500 pages
...thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: 5 The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink...music winds along Deep, majestic, smooth and strong. Thro' verdant vales, and Ceres' golden reign: 1 0 Now rolling down the steep amain. Headlong, impetuous... | |
 | William Blake - Art - 2000 - 132 pages
...trembling firings. From Helicon's harmonious fprings A thoufand rills their mazy progrefs take: -t The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich ftream of mufic winds along, Deep, majeftic, fmooih, and ftrong, Thro' Thro' verdant vales, and Ceres'... | |
 | Frank Mehring - Nature in literature - 2001 - 194 pages
...their green Attire:" Thomas Gray, „Sonnet on the Death of Richard West". Works. Vol. 1. S. 110. 180 .-.The laughing flowers, that round them blow / drink life and fragrance as they flow." Thomas Gray, „The Progress of Poesy". Works. Vol. 1. S. 3. 181 „The season smiles, resigning all... | |
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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... 
