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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. "
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 288
edited by - 1779
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The beauties of the poets: a collection of moral and sacred poetry, compiled ...

Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 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 brook...
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Poetical selections, consisting of the most approved pieces of our best ...

Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...peep of dawn " Brushing with hasty steps the dew away, " To meet the sun upon the upland l«wn. •« There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, " That wreathes its old fantastic root so high, " His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, " And pore upon the brook...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 424 pages
...a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more 7 — — a* he lay along Under an oak, &c.] " 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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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...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, jVIutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping, woeful wan, like...
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Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's ...

Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 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 noontide would he stretch, " And pore upon the brook...
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Beauties of Poetry: Consisting of Elegant Selections from the Works of Pope ...

1814 - 310 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 noontide would he stretch, " And pore upon the brook...
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Best Remembered Poems

Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...him at 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 noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 100 "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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Corresponding Powers: Studies in Honour of Professor Hisaaki Yamanouchi

George Hughes - 1997 - 274 pages
...fame unknown" began to be grafted onto descriptions of landscapes. Of Gray's youth it was said that "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 Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...him at 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 noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook...
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