| Thomas Warton - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1753 - 164 pages
...artlefs tale relate ; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred fpirit fhall inquire thy fate, Haply fome hoary-headed fwain may fay, ' Oft have...rove, ' Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, 1 Or craz'd with care, or Crofs'd in hopelefs love. ' One morn I niifs'd him on the cuftom'd hill,... | |
| Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1753 - 164 pages
...nodding beech r * That wreathes its old fantaftic roots fo high, ' His liftlefs length at noontide wou'd he ftretch, ' And pore upon the 'brook that babbles...fmiling as in fcorn, ' Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he wcu'd rove, ' Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, ' Or craz'd with care, or crofs'd in hcpeleis... | |
| Collection - 1758 - 394 pages
...nodding beech ' That wreathes its old fantaftick roots fo high, ' His liftlefs length at noon-tide wou'd he ftretch, ' And pore upon the brook that babbles by. ' Hard by yon wood, now fmiling as in fcora, ' Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he wou'd rove ; ' Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn,... | |
| Thomas Warton - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1759 - 168 pages
...nodding beech ' That wreathes its old fantaftic roots fo high, ' His liftlefs length at noontide woii'd he ftretch, ' And pore upon the brook that babbles by. ' Hard by yon wood, now fmiling as in fcorn, ' Mutt'i ing MS wayward fancies he would rove, ' Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, ' Or craz'd... | |
| John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred fpirit fhall inquire thy fate. Haply, fome hdary-headed fwain may fay, ' Oft have we feen him at the peep...fmiling as in fcorn, ' Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would tove, ' Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, ' Or craz'd with care, or crofs'd in hopel&fs... | |
| Robert Lloyd - English poetry - 1762 - 308 pages
...properabat faepius ortum, Summaque tendebat per juga laetus iter. Sa,pe " There at the foot of younder nodding beech " That wreathes its old fantaftic roots...babbles by. " Hard by yon wood, now fmiling as in fcorn, " Mutt' ring his wayward fancies he wou'd rove ; " Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, " Or... | |
| Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...high, i His liftlefs length at noon-tide would he ftretch, i And pore upon the brook that babbles by. i Hard by yon wood, now fmiling as in fcorn, • Mutt'ring his wayward fancies'he would rove, ' One morn I mifs'd him on th' accuftom'd hill, i Along the heath, and near... | |
| Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...c That rears its old fantaftic roots fo high, * His liftlefs length at noontide would he ftretch, c And pore upon the brook that babbles by. ' Hard by...fmiling as in fcorn, " Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove ; ' Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, * Or craz'd with care, or crofs'd in hopelefs... | |
| English poetry - 1765 - 414 pages
...His liftlefs length at noon-tide would he ftretch, * And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Hard ' Hard by yon wood, now fmiling as in fcorn, ' Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove ; * Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, ' Or craz'd with care, or crofs'd in hopelefs... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 294 pages
...high, His liftlefs length at noon-tide would he ftretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Hrud by yon wood, now fmiling, as in fcorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies, he wou'd rove ; Now Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or crofs'd in hopelefs love. One morn... | |
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