 Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader, browner shade, Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease...  Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 5by Thomas Gray - 1768 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1861 - 314 pages
...at the Adelphi, on the occasion of a rustic fete. Hear him sing, "At ease reclined, in rustic state, How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great ! " Who would not be Strephon rather than your muchto-be-pitied lord ! Indeed so over-weighted is the... | |
 | Golden gleanings - 1863 - 342 pages
...Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little...Still is the toiling hand of care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 456 pages
...glade,* Befide fome water's rufhy brink With me the Mufe fhall fit, and think (At eafe reclined in ruftic ftate) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great !3 Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repofe : Yet hark, how through the peopled... | |
 | 1864 - 142 pages
...rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardor of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How...Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet, hark, how through the peopled air The husy murmur glows ! The insect-youth are on the... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...beside some water's rushy brink with me the Muse shall sit, and think (at ease reclined in rustic state) how vain the ardour of the Crowd, how low, how little are the Proud, how indigent the Great! 298 Still is the toiling hand of Care; the panting herds repose: yet hark, how thro' the peopled air... | |
 | Edward Bliss Reed - 1912 - 636 pages
...conventional "zephyrs" and the "Hours, fair Venus' train," together with much commonplace moralizing: " How vain the ardour of the Crowd, How low, how little are the Proud, How indigent the Great!" 1 See WL Phelps, Selectiong from the Poetry and Prote of Thomat Gray, Boston, 1894, p. 62. The Beginnings... | |
 | Percy Adams Hutchinson - 1912 - 572 pages
...Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the Crowd, How low, how little are the Proud, Still is the toiling hand of Care: The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas - 1913 - 104 pages
...some water's rushy brink 15 With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great! 20 Still is the toiling hand of Care; The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air... | |
 | 1915 - 130 pages
...rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardor of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How...Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect-youth are on the wing,... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1610 pages
...ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardor of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, 21 ph@, Xh@, repose ; Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! 25 The insect-youth are on the... | |
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