 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...aghast (i) in speechless trance : To arms ! cried Mortimer (k), and couch'd his quiv'ring lance. 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 stood ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...aghast (i) in speechless trance: To arms! cried Mortimer (k), and couch'd his quiv'ring lance. 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 stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair... | |
 | British essayists - 1803 - 300 pages
...Timotheus in the Feast of Alexander, I contemplate with awful delight Gray's enthusiastic bard — 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...stood aghast z in speechless trance ; To arms! cried Mortimer k, and couch'd his quiv'ring lance. 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 stood ; mountainous tract which the Welsh... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...stood aghast in speechless trance: To arms! cried J Mortimer, and couch'd his quiv'ring lance. I. 2. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, AVith haggard eyes the Poet stood ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 424 pages
...of Timotheus in the Feast of Alexander, I contemplate with awful delight Gray's enthusiastic bard— 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 Stream'd... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...stood aghast in speechless trance : To arms ! cried Mortimer, and couch'd his quivering lance. I. 2. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of wo, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 448 pages
...stand uurivalled ; the subject of his best picture is taken from the following part of Gra) 's Bard : " On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the sable garb of wo, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; Loose his beard and hoary hair, Streamed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...Glo'ster* stood aghast in speechless trance: To arms! cried Mortimer6, and couch'd his quiTering 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... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...vain prosperity receiv'd, To her they vow their truth, and are again believ'd. GRAY'S Odes, ' Bard. 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... | |
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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, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,) And with a master's hand and prophet's... 
