| William Wirt - Virginia - 1805 - 144 pages
...o'er old Conway's foaming flood, I.oh'il 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 T) And with a Poet's hand and Prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. Guess my surprize,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1807 - 606 pages
...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 ludicrous,... | |
| Anecdotes - 1809 - 562 pages
...Sempronius says, " My voice is still for tear." jSee what Addison says, Spectator, Vol. IV. No. 309, " (Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air.J" GRAY'S Bard. This simile seems to have been suggested by a passage ia Milton, Par. Lost. b.... | |
| 1809 - 878 pages
...Conwaj's foaming flood, Kob'd in the sable garb of wo, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; Loose hid 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." "The silent picture... | |
| Henry Kett - Best books - 1812 - 500 pages
...Grecian painters caught many of their finest ideas from poets and historians. The imagination of JPhidias was aided in forming his Olympian Jupiter by the sublime...enchantment, carries us beyond ourselves, and either transports us into the midst of the most delightful scenery, or places us by the side of saints, martyrs,... | |
| Garnet Terry - 1812 - 408 pages
...o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd 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 poet's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of bis lyre." , * Guess my surprise,... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...o'er old Comvay'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 the deep sorrows of his lyre." The Bard is represented... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
...old Conway's foaming flood, " Robed in the sable garb of woo, " 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 :... | |
| William Wirt - Virginia - 1829 - 250 pages
...Conway's foaming flood, " Kobed in ihe sable garb of wo, ' " With haggard eyes the poet stood ; " ( Loose his beard and hoary hair " Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air:) " And with a poet's hand and prophet's fire, « Struck the deep sorrow! of his iyre." Guess my surprise,... | |
| A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...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 meteor to the troubled air :) " And with a poet's hand and prophet's fire, " Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre." Guess my surprize,... | |
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