 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes...babbles 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1854 - 504 pages
...the peep of dawn, Brushing, with hasty steps, the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes...And pore upon the brook that babbles by. " Hard by ypn wood, now smiling, as in scorn, Mattering his wayward fancies, he would rove ; Now drooping, woful... | |
 | John Burnet - 1854 - 480 pages
...recubans sub tegmeni fagi. " By the way," said Knox, " Gray, in his Elegy, uses the same idea, — " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by." " The beech may be very well for poets," remarked Nasmyth, " but give me an old oak, both for the character... | |
 | 1854 - 608 pages
...I think he did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there. The scene is repeated in the Elegy : There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. It seems from the same authority that he was an early riser, and was accustomed to walk abroad at "... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 632 pages
...not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do .there.' The scene is repeated in the elegy — ' There ' There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.' It seems from the same authority that he was an early riser, and was accustomed to walk abroad at '... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 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...babbles by. " Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'rinjj liia wayward fancies, would he rove ; Now drooping, woml-wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...the peep of dawn, Brishing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes...by. " Hard by yon wood, now smiling, as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies, he would rove ; Now drooping, woful-wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...the peep of dawn, Brishing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes...by. " Hard by yon wood, now smiling, as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies, he would rove ; Now drooping, woful-wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 pages
...Winters Tale, v. 2. This whole account of Gallus brings to mind the melancholy youth in Gray's Elegy : " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Hard by you wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies, would he rove ; Now drooping, woful,... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1855 - 608 pages
...the peep of dawn, Brushing, with hasty steps, the dews away, To meet the Sun upon the upland lawn. There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Hard by von wood, now smiling, as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies, he would rove: Now drooping, woeful,... | |
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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 may say, 'Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away... 
