 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - 1836 - 400 pages
...Ophelia's death. The passage is familiar to all — hut few will object to its repetition here : — There is a Willow grows aslant a brook That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream : There with fantastic garlands did she come, Of crow-flowers, nettles, daysies, and long purples,... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - 1836 - 400 pages
...Ophelia's death. The passage is familiar to all — but few will object to its repetition here : — There is a Willow grows aslant a brook That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream : There with fantastic garlands did she come, Of crow-flowers, nettles, daysies, and long purples,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 pages
...heel, So fast they follow : — Your sister 's drown'd, Laertes. Laer. Drown'd ! — O, where ? Queen. There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; There, with fantastic garlands did she come, Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...another's heel. So fast they follow — Your sister's drown'd, Laertes. Laer. Drown'd ! O, where ? Queen. usic. Enter two or three Serrante, with a banquet. 1 Serv. Here ; There, with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples.... | |
 | Sir Edward Strachey - 1848 - 116 pages
...or loosened, and becomes a faery isle, and after a brief vagrancy sinks almost without an eddy ! " There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; There, with fantastic garlands did she come, Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,... | |
 | 1906 - 562 pages
...natural face in a glass." So in 'Hamlet,' IV. vii., tho Queen, when describing Ophelia's death, says :— There is a willow grows aslant a brook. That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; and in 'Lear,' II. ii., the epithet "glassgazing " is among a score of others applied by Kent to... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth ! THE QUEEN DESCRIBES THE DEATH OP OPHELIA. THERE is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; There with fantastic garlands did she come, Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pages
...except to the smallest boat. A willow thrusting its trunk over the stream reminds us of Ophelia : — " There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream."* l\ Peep at Clurlcote.] A gust of wind raises the underside of the leaves to view, and we then perceive... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...found ; My parts, my title, and my perfect soul, Shall manifest me rightly. O. i. 2. OPHELIA DROWNING. There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; There, with fantastic garlands did she come, Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...diameter; Lost to the light by that unhappy space, This globe had lain a frozen lonesome mass. Block-more. There is a willow grows aslant a brook That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. Shakspere. ASPIEATIONS. THERE is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes... | |
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There is a willow grows aslant 'a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do... 
