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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... "
The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers - Page 284
by British essayists - 1803
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The Book of Nature

John Mason Good - 1831 - 482 pages
...a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conn-ay's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of wo, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard and hoary hair Strenm'd, like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand and propnet'a fire Struck the...
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A Descriptive, Explanatory, and Critical, Catalogue of Fifty of the Earliest ...

John Landseer - 1834 - 534 pages
...whole performance. It has been said that Gray caught the sublime idea of his impassioned Bard, who, " —(Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air) —with a master's hand and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre," from some work of...
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Nature of the mind

John Mason Good - 1834 - 394 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 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...
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Letters. Papers in the Connoisseur. Fragments of a commentary on Paradise lost

William Cowper - 1837 - 380 pages
...had doubtless this line in his eye, when in the second stanza of his Ode entitled the Bard, he said, Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air. LINE 542. A shout that tore, fyc. Homer's is a noble shout of which he says in the last line of the...
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Poems. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
..." On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Comvay's foaming flood, Rob'd in the sable garb of Woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; (Loose his...hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled airj And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark how...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a ..., Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 pages
...eyes the Poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled airj And with a master's hand, and 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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The Book of Nature

John Mason Good - 1837 - 482 pages
...Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the eable gatb ut' wo, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose Ills beard and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a matter's hand and prophet's tire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. The detail of the prophecy is...
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Secret Societies of the Middle Ages

Thomas Keightley - 1837 - 432 pages
...others to warn the French monarch. These arriving in time, the former were discovered, on which the "Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air, ' by Milton's " Imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind."...
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Secret Societies of the Middle Ages

Thomas Keightley - 1837 - 434 pages
...others to warn the French monarch. These arriving in time, the former were discovered, on which the " Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air, ' by Milton's " Imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind."...
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The bard, with illustr. from drawings by the honourable mrs. John Talbot [ed ...

Thomas Gray - 1837 - 110 pages
...lance. N 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 fire, Struck...
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