 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 pages
...aghast in speechless trance : To arms! cried Mortimer,3 and couch'd his quivering lance. I. — z. 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...stood aghast in speechless trance : " To arms ! " cried Mortimer, and couched his quivering lance. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...Glo'ster2 stood aghast in speechless trance : To arms! cried Mortimer,3 and couch'd his quivering lance. 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... | |
 | James White - Great Britain - 1855 - 308 pages
...save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears ! " *•*••** 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... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 pages
...Bards that fell into his hands, to be put to death. t Hauberks— a Coat of Mail mads of steel rings. 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,... | |
 | John Holland - 1855 - 424 pages
...latter place I looked in vain for any suitable scene for Gray's Bard, whom, we are told, stood — , ' On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood.' * He composed at Conway the verses entitled "Evening Time," founded on Zech. xiv. 7. Works, p. 336.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...lance.' Of the first Edward scatter'd wild dismay, As down the steep of Snowdon's shaggy side 2 L 2. On a rock, whose haughty brow* Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rol«-(l in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Popt stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...thing that has hitherto appeared in our Ian guage, the Odes of Dryden himself not excepted."* I. 2. " On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'il in the sable garb of Woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair... | |
 | England - 1856 - 586 pages
...When looking down from the castle upon the river, Gray's lines will be sure to recur to the memory : " On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood." They describe well enough the bite of the castle, which we may suppose occupies the place from which... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...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, Kobed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood •ose his beard, and hoary hair im'd... | |
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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... 
