 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply, some hoarf headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of...TO meet the sun upon the upland lawn. There at the f^ot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots »o high. His listless length at... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply..." There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, • His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate. Haply, some hoary headed swain may say, " Oft have we seen him at the peep...lawn. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, T2 1 Triply, some hoary-headed swain^may say, " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn, Brushing:...lawn. There at the foot of yonder nodding- beech, That vrcatlies its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...lines their artless tale relate, If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit should inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may...dews away, " To meet the sun upon the upland lawn, &c." Nothing can be conceived more truly ridiculous, in reading this passage, than quitting the melancholy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, ddesses which ye did see ; But that fourth maid, which...enraced? But whatao'er she was, she worthy was To be wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...their artless tale relate ; COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. 103 Haply some hoary-headed Swain may say, 'Oft hare we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty...lawn. ' There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...spirit shall inquire thy fate : Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, « Oft have we seen him àt the peep of dawn « Brushing with hasty steps the...«There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, « That wreathes its old fantastic roots so higli, « His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, «... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate, If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply,...lawn. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If ehanee, by lonely eontemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate : Haply...upland lawn. " There at the foot of yonder nodding beeeh, That wreathes its old fantastie roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he streteh,... | |
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E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain... 
