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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 288
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Poétique anglaise, Volume 3

Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...peep of dawn, » Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, » To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. » There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, » That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high , » His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, » And pore upon the...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

1806 - 408 pages
...peep of dawn, ' Brushing with ha.sty steps the dews away, ' To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. ' There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, ' That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, ' His listless length at noon-tide would lie stretch, ' * And pore upon the...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...peep of dawn ' Brushing with hasty steps the dews away ' To meet the sun upou the upland lawn. • ' 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...
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The muses' bower, embellished with the beauties of English poetry, Volume 3

English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...the peep of dawn ' Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, ' To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. ' There at the foot of yonder nodding beech ' That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, ' His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, ' And pore upon the brook...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...at the peep of dawn, Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn ; news is in the fetter fouhn ; The carrier's not commlssion'd to fantastic roots so high, llnVoucffi length at noon-tide would lie stretch, And pore upon the brook...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 15

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 682 pages
...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. " Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping, woeful wan, like one...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...herd, Full of the pasture, jumps along by him. And never stays to greet him ; Ay, quoth Jaques, [7] " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech " That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. " His listkss length at noon-tide would be stretch. "' And pore upon the brook...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: W. Thompson, Blair ...

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 686 pages
...the peep и f «lawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away TJ meet the Sun upon the upland lawn. " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch. And pore upon the brook...
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A Criticism of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...of dawn, " Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, " To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. XXVI. " 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...
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A criticism on the Elegy written in a country church yard. Being a ...

John Young - 1810 - 266 pages
...of dawn, " Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, " To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. XXVI. " 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...
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