 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 pages
...o'er old Conway's foamy flood, Eob'd 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 deep sorrows of his lyre : — " Hark, how... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 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 Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet'y fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark how each... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 pages
...number, in Gray's noble Ode : " Bobed 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 deep sorrows of his lyre." Whence [came] the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pages
...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 deep sorrows of his lyre : ' Hark how each giant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 pages
...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 deep sorrows of his lyre : ' Hark how each giant... | |
 | James White - 1855 - 308 pages
...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 mir) ; And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how... | |
 | John Trumbull - 1856 - 208 pages
...muskets on the field, .&nd peasant guards, in rueful plight, March off our captured bands from fight; * Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air. Gray. f An American cant name for the British troops, taken from the color of their uniform. While... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 342 pages
...Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind." Gray has it: — " With haggard eyes the poet stood ; Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air." Campbell, in his " Pleasures of Hope," has also borrowed this simile : — " Where Andes, giant of... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe. With haggard eyes the poet stooo ; (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 deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how each... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 304 pages
...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 deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how each... | |
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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 deep sorrows of his lyre. 
