 | Thomas Gray - 1770 - 134 pages
...That wreathes its old fantaftic roots fo high, * His liftlefs length at noontide would he flretch, ' And pore upon the brook that babbles by. * Hard by yon wood, now fmiling as in fcorn, * Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove, * Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, * Or craz'd... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1772 - 60 pages
...peep of dawn Brushing with hafty fteps the dews , away » • To meet the fun upon the upland lawn There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantaftic roots fohigh, His liillefs length at noontide Would he ftretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by .... | |
 | 1773 - 394 pages
...him at the peep of dawn Bruming with hafty fteps the dews away To meet the fun upon the upland lawn. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantallic roots fo high, His liftlefs length at noon-tide would he ftretch,. And pore upon the brook... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - 1774 - 260 pages
...the peep of dawn " Brufhing with hafty fteps the dews away " To meet the fun upon the upland lawn. " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech " That wreathes...babbles by. " Hard by yon wood, now fmiling as in fcorn, " Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he wou'd rove ; " Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, " Or... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - 1774 - 264 pages
...the peep of dawn " Brufhing with hafty fteps the dews away " To meet the fun upon the upland lawn. " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes...babbles by. " Hard by yon wood, now fmiling as in fcorn, " Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he wou'd rove ; " Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, " Or... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1775 - 664 pages
...yonder nodding beach, That wreathes its old fantadic roots fo high, His lilHels length at noon tide would he ftretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Hard by yon wood, now fmiling as in fcorn, Muttering his wayward fancies, he would rove. Ivlr. Gray had great excellence in'Latin poetry, as a... | |
 | William Giles (didactic writer) - 1775 - 336 pages
...at theifoot of yonder nodding beech * That wreaths its old fantaftic roots fo high, * Hjs.liftlisfs length at noontide would he ftretch, * And pore upon...the brook that babbles by, * Hard by yon wood, now fmiljng as in fcorn, 'Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he. would rove; ' Now drooping, woful wan, like... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1775 - 168 pages
...peep of dawn, ' Brufliing wilh hafly fteps the dews away 1 To meet the fun upon the upland lawn. ' There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, ' That wreathes its old funtaftic roots fo high, ' His liillefs length at noon-tide would he ftretch, ' And pore upon the brook... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1778 - 182 pages
...the peep of dawn, * Brufhing with hafty fteps the dews away ' To meet the fun upon the upland lawn. ' There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, ' That wreathes its old fantaftic root fo high, ' His liftlefs length at noon-tide would he flretch, * And pore upon the brook that babbles... | |
 | Sir Herbert Croft - 1780 - 326 pages
...noifelefs foot of Time. j^. ... All's well that ends well. Tbert it the foot of yonder nodding heach, That wreathes its old f'antaftic roots fo high, His...ftretch, , And pore upon the brook that babbles by. •;i' ' '•" •••• - ' Gray. Elegy; •* He lay along . : . irr.der an oak, whole antique... | |
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There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. 
