| Thomas James Mathias - 1815 - 190 pages
...are happy ; it is on the subject of the freezing and thawing of words in the Spectator: " Pluviaeque loquaces Descende're jugis, et garrulus ingruit imber."...stream of Dorick harmony flowing through the lines : an E| arrpoio Among the writers of his time Mr. Gray was particularly struck with Rousseau. His Emile,... | |
| Thomas James Mathias - 1814 - 190 pages
...day, by adding his evening saunter : " Him have we seen the greenwood side along, As homeward oft be hied, his labour done, What time the woodlark piped...stream of Dorick harmony flowing through the lines : ligai uSup NfjU^av i I- asTfaio xaTiiSopiiov xiXapv^ii. Among the writers of his time Mr. Gray was... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
..." Him have we seen the greenwood side along, While o'er the heath we hied, our labour done, Oft as the woodlark piped her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun." " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pages
..." Him have we seen the greenwood side along, While o'er the heath we hied, our labour done, Oft as the woodlark piped her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun *. " Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pages
...' Him have we seen the greenwood side along, While o'er the heath we hied, our labours doue, Oft as the woodlark piped her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun.' And after verse 29, now the last, once followed — ' There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye year,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
..." Him have we seen the greenwood side along, While o'er the heath we hied, our labour done, Oft as the woodlark piped her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun*. * This stanza, which completes the account of the Poet's day, although in the author's MS., has hitherto... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...[" Him have we seen2 the greenwood side along, While o'er the heath we hied, our labour done, Oft as the woodlark piped her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun.] " Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping... | |
| Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...by. Him have we seen the greenwood side along, While o'er the heath we hied, our labour done, Oft as the woodlark piped her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies, he would rove ; Now drooping,... | |
| Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...by. Him have we seen the greenwood side along, While o'er the heath we hied, our labour done, Oft as the woodlark piped her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies, he would rove ; Now drooping,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1847 - 276 pages
...Him have we seen the green-wood side along, " While o'er the heath we hied, our labour done, " Oft as the woodlark piped her farewell song, " With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun." Gray now superintended an edition of his Works, printed at the Strawberry Hill press, by Mr. Walpole,... | |
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