 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...  The Letters of the British Spy - Pagina 194door William Wirt - 1899 - 260 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | A citizen of Pittsburgh - 1818 - 276 pagina’s
...old Conwa) 's foaming flood, " Robed in the sable garb of woe, M With haggard eyes the poet stood : M (Loose his beard and hoary hair " Streamed like a...fire, " Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre." Guess my surprize, v/hen, on my 'arrival at Richmond", and mentioning; the name of this ninn, I found not one... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 536 pagina’s
...Dear as these eyes that weep in fondness o'er thee." Gray tells us that the image of his " Bard" • ' Loose his beard and hoary hair, Streamed like a METEOR to the troubled air," was taken from a picture of the supreme being by Raphael. It is, however, remarkable, and somewhat... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1826 - 208 pagina’s
...in the mind of the author of that sublime poem THE BARD ! " Robed in the sable garb of woe, 14 Wilh haggard eyes, the poet stood ; " Loose his beard,...hair " Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air. What, therefore, constitutes poetical genius, that intellectual peculiarity, which lays the foundation... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pagina’s
...o'er old Conway's foamy flood j Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet sto6d ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air;) And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. 12, To Pandemonium the summons... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1827 - 512 pagina’s
...sublime poem THE BARD ! " Robeil in tha sable garb of woe, " With hngg.*rd eyes, the poet stood ; " Loom his beard, and hoary hair " Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air. What, therefore, constitutes poetical genius, that intellectual peculiarity, which lays the foundation... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pagina’s
...JiaugJity brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eye, the poet stood. Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air." Of these lines, the two first present a picture which the imagination naturally views from below; the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pagina’s
...haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eye, the poet stood. Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air." Of these lines, the two first present a picture which the imagination naturally views from below ;... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 394 pagina’s
...Dear as these eyes that weep in fondness o'er thee." Gray tells us that the image of his " Bard" " Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a METEOR to the troubled air," was taken from a picture of the Supreme Being by Raphael. It is, however, remarkable, and somewhat... | |
 | 1836 - 558 pagina’s
...a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of wo, 1 With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard,...hoary hair** Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air.tt) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. * Mocking... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1837 - 110 pagina’s
...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,...Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air, And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how each giant-oak,... | |
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