 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...but just such hills as people who love their necks as well as I do may venture to climb, and craggs that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were...winds, And as they bow their hoary tops relate, In murm'ring sounds, the dark decrees of fatej While visions, as poetic eyes avow, Cling to each leaf... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...Dover cliff; but just such hills as people who love their necks as well as I do, may venture to climb, and crags that give the eye as much pleasure as if...with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetable, thai, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their old stories to the winds,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...Cliff ; rbut just such hills as people, who love their necks as well a? 1 do, may venture to climb, and crags, that give the eye as much pleasure, as...people, are always dreaming out their old stories to th« winds. And, as they bow their hoary tops, relate, In inurni'riug- sounds, the dark decrees of... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...but just such hills as people, who love their necks as well as I do, may venture to climb, and craggs that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were...winds, And as they bow their hoary tops relate, In munn'ring sounds, the dark decrees of Fate ; While visions, as poetic eyes avow, Cling to each leaf,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...Dover cliff; but just such hills as people who love their necks as well as I do may venture to climb, and crags that give the eye as much pleasure as if...hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and othef very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...but just such hills as people, who love their necks as well as I do, may venture to climb, and craggs that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were...are covered with most venerable beeches, and other * At Buraham in Buckinghamshire. very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient people, are... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...as people who love their necks as well as I do, may venture to climb, and crags that give the eye u much pleasure as if they were more dangerous ; both...and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, aud other very reverend vegetables, that like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 pages
...but just such hills as people who love their necks as well as I do may venture to climb, and craggs that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were...winds, And as they bow their hoary tops relate, In murm'ring sounds, the dark decrees of fate ; While visions, as poetic eyes avow, Cling to each leaf,... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...that account, obliges me to have done in reminding you that I am Yours, &c. London, Aug. 22, 1737. very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient...people, are always dreaming out their old stories to the wind. And as thcy bow their hoary tope, relate In murmuring sounds, the dark decrees of fate ; While... | |
 | Christianity - 1840 - 516 pages
...vulgar call it » common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable...other very reverend vegetables, that, like most other convenient people, are always dreaming out their old stories to the wind. At the foot of one of these,... | |
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It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices; mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much above the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing as Dover cliff; but just such hills as people who love their necks as well as I do may venture... 
