 | English poetry - 1801 - 224 pages
...» There , at the foot of yonder nodding beech » That wreathes its old fantastic roots so higlf', " His listless length at noontide would he stretch, » And pore upon the brook that bubbles by, t> Hard by yon Wood , now smiling as in scorn J » Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreaths its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length...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,... | |
 | Mary Anne Neri - 1804 - 310 pages
...so higb, His listless length at noon-tide "would hcstrctchi And pore upon the brook that bubbles by. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove, Now drooping woeful wan, like one forlorn,. Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love." GHAY-. Viola entered... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pages
...MISCELLANIES. " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, " That wreathes its old fantastic roots so hig " 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 rov " Now drooping,... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...To meet the sun upon the upland )a« n. "There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech. That » reathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length...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,... | |
 | 1809 - 488 pages
...upland lawn. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreaths its old fantastic root so high, Hi* listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that buWAeabv. THOMAS GRAY. £25 Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 pages
...lawn. "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roofs s » hi Ji, His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. " Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'rinn his wayward fancies he would rove; Now drooping,... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 pages
...' To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. ' There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, 1 That wreaths its old fantastic roots so high, ' His listless length at noontide would he stretch, 4 And pore upon the brook that bubbles by. ' Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, ' Mutt'ring... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...o «* / - ) There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, Thai wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, jlndpure iipvii the brook that bubbles by. ELEGANT POEM S. POPE'S ESSAY ON MAN, flair's <S5rafoe t... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1815 - 122 pages
...high, His listless length at noontide, would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that bubbles by. " " " Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn>. " Muttering...wayward fancies,, he would rove ; " Now drooping, woeful, wan, like one forlorn, " Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love. " One morn I missed... | |
| |
wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. 27 Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies, he would rove, Now drooping, woeful-wan,... 
