 | William Coxe - 1823 - 320 pages
...Bard: 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...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.* Among the excellencies of Parmegiano, we may enumerate the appropriate and harmonious tone of his colouring;... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 416 pages
...Dryden. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old'Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the snble garb of woe. With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Sfream'd like a meteor to the troubled air) And with a master's band and prophet's fire Struck the... | |
 | 1823 - 508 pages
..." On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rolled 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 j And with a master's hand and prophet's fire, Struck the... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pages
...Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Puet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark, how each giant-oak, and desert cave, S igha to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Conway's foaming flood, Kob'd in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose In- Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When...stones, Forget not; in thy book record their groans Who • Hark, how each giant oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...meteor depends mainly upon this, that it was " with gems and emblaz'd." 535 £40 golden lustre rich Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air. Gray'* Bard, —Andes, giant of the western star, His meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd Looks from... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...On a rock, whose haughty brow 15 Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; (Loose his...hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air ;) 20 Vet. 14. " To arms!" cried Mortimer, and couch'd his quivering lance.] Edmond de Mortimer, Lord... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pages
...2. On a rock, whose haughty hrow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. Ver. 11. of Snowdon's shaggy side] Snowdon was a name given by the Saxons to that mountainous tract... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1826 - 454 pages
...inimitable. 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...prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. The detail of the prophecy is too long for quotation; but the following fragments, which form its opening... | |
 | 1826 - 310 pages
...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,...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark, how each giant-oak, and desert-cave Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee,... | |
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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... 
