 | 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... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming llr,:>e , Rob'd in the sable garb of wo, 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 the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Wirt - United States - 1804 - 120 pages
...picture of his bard : 9s *-58<-fe 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 Poet's hand and Prophet's fire. struck the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Wirt - Virginia - 1805 - 144 pages
...introductory picture of his Bard, na rock, whose haughty brow, Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, I.oh'il in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet...hair, Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air T) And with a Poet's hand and Prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. Guess my surprize,... | |
 | Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1805 - 340 pages
...affectingly represented by the masterly pencil of Reynolds. Gray, when describing the bard, says, « Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air:" He is supposed to have recollected the celebrated picture of Raphael, at Florence, representing the... | |
 | Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1805 - 340 pages
...affectingly represented by the masterly pencil of Reynolds. Gray, when describing the bard, says, • " Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air :" He is supposed to have recollected the celebrated picture of Raphael, at Florence, representing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...quiv'ring lance. I. 2. Ou a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming Rood, Rob'd in tlie sable garb of Woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hairj Streara'd like a meteor to the troubled air§.) And with a master's hand and prophet's tke Struck... | |
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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... 
