 Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their old stories to the winds...  The Quarterly Review - Page 402edited by - 1914Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...pleasure as if they were more dangerous : Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that, like most...tops relate, In murm'ring sounds, the dark decrees of fatej While visions, as poetic eyes avow, Cling to each leaf and swarm on every bough. At the foot... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...description of them, in the poet's ow» words.1 And, as they bow their hoary tops, relate, In murmuring sounds, the dark decrees of fate ; While visions, as poetic eyes avow, Clmg to each leaf, and swarm on every bough. On such beeches it was his fortune again to stumble in... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetable, thai, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming...winds, And as they bow their hoary' tops relate, In murmuring sounds, the dark decrees of fate , White visions, as noetic eyes avow, Cling to each leaf,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...pleasure, as if they were more dangerous : both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that, like most...people, are always dreaming out their old stories to th« winds. And, as they bow their hoary tops, relate, In inurni'riug- sounds, the dark decrees of... | |
 | 1821 - 394 pages
...pleasure as if they were more dangerous : Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that, like most...winds, And as they bow their hoary tops relate, In murmuring sounds, the dark decrees of fate ; While visions, as poetic eyes avow, Cling to each leaf... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pages
...pleasure as if they were more dangerous : both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that, like most...winds, And as they bow their hoary tops relate, In munn'ring sounds, the dark decrees of Fate ; While visions, as poetic eyes avow, Cling to each leaf,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1820 - 492 pages
...if they were more dangerous: Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and othef very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient...dreaming out their old stories to the winds, And as the; bow their hoary tops relate, In murmuring sounds, the dark decrecs of fate ; While visions, as... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 pages
...pleasure as if they were more dangerous ; both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, aud other very reverend vegetables, that like most other...winds. And, as they bow their hoary tops, relate, In murmuring sounds, the dark decrees of fate ; While visions, as poetic eyes avow, Cling to each leaf,... | |
 | 1836 - 558 pages
...that account, obliges me to have done in reminding you that I am Yours, &c. London, Aug. 22, 1737. very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient...people, are always dreaming out their old stories to the wind. And as thcy bow their hoary tope, relate In murmuring sounds, the dark decrees of fate ; While... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 pages
...pleasure as if they were more dangerous. Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that like most...other ancient people, are always dreaming out their oM stories to the winds: — 'And as they bow, their hoary tops relate, In murmuring sounds, the dark... | |
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