 And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre: 'Hark, how each giant oak and desert cave Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath!  The Metropolitan - Page 1801837Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...troubled air§.) And with a master's hand and prophet's tke Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. * Hark how each giant oak and desert cave ' Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath! « O'er thce, O King! their hundred arms they wave, * Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe; '... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...the troubled airj And with a master's band and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark how each giant oak and desert cave Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee, O King ! their hundred arms they wave, Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe ; Vocal... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 448 pages
...will notice, however, two faults in this production of Mr. Gray, which are obvious and palpable. " Hark ! how each giant oak and desert cave Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ; O'er thee, O king, (heir hundred arms they wave," &C. A " giant oak" may be Briarean enough to "... | |
 | 1854 - 800 pages
...they would harmonise with the sunset view of distant fields, that we had glanced at just before. " Hark, how each giant oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! " That one who loved mountains, and freqnented them, should pnt a string of unmeaning words like... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...troubled air) And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark, how each giant oak, and desert cave, ' Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! ' O'er thee, oh king ! their hundred arms they wave, ' Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe;... | |
 | 1823 - 512 pages
...ludicrous, he has committed, by separating " torrents" from " awful," in the following passage : — Hark I how each giant oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! Will it be believed that, in the present enlightened age, these two words are disjoined by a minim... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...troubled air) And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. • der'd ! O'er thee, oh king! their hundred arms they weave, Revenge on thee in hoarser murmura breathe; Vocal... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...Paris. — GRAY. And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how each giant oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee, oh King ! their hundred arms they wave, 25 Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe... | |
 | John Barber - 1828 - 310 pages
...troubled air, And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how each giant, oak and desert cave " Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath! " O'er thee O King! their hundred arms they wave, " Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe; "Vocal... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Harfc, how each giant oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee, oh king ! their hundred arms they wave, Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe ; Vocal... | |
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