Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers. Public Characters - Pagina 2581805Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| William Goodman - 1845 - 440 pagina’s
...for the merchant and " the uncrested yeoman." " But let us view those things with closer eye." " Not rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers." In former days there were nine descriptions of gentry who could use coat armour, and for a fee they had... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pagina’s
...explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictur'd stores. Not rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers." t. Written at StoneJienge. "Thou noblest monument of Albion's isle, Whether, by Merlin's aid, from... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pagina’s
...explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictur'd stores. Not rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers." S•ruct. Written at Stone hen gc. "Thou noblest monument of Albion's isle, Whether, by Merlin's aid,... | |
| Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1846 - 314 pagina’s
...amid the vestiges and monuments of perished centuries are full of pleasure and profit. " Nor rough and barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers." But there is no study which requires more plain paid practiced good sense. Imaginative minds become,... | |
| William Alfred Jones - 1847 - 322 pagina’s
...piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictur'd stores.....barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers. During what may be called the Hayley rage, when the author of the Triumphs of... | |
| 1847 - 280 pagina’s
...enquirer; proving that the study of antiquarian lore is not without its pleasures and gcatifications :— Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. Mark Browell, the father, married again; the name of his second wife was Jane, but her family is not... | |
| 1847 - 762 pagina’s
...proceed. Warton well delineated his own conviction, and that of many others, when he asserted that " Not rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers." Such have been the motives prompting to the present publication. It is the condensed product of collections... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 572 pagina’s
...Ode to Sleep. O what's a table richly spread Without a woman at its head ! Progress of Discontent. Nor rough, nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers. In Dugdale's Monusticon. Warton's best poem, as a whole, is the Inscription in... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 462 pagina’s
...Ode to Sleep. 0 what's a table richly spread Without a woman at its head ! Progress of Discontent. Nor rough, nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers. In Dugdale's Monasticon. Warton's best poem, as a whole, is the Inscription in... | |
| 1872 - 676 pagina’s
...piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days Whence culls the pensive bard his pictur'd stores...the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers.'1 Joseph lí'artoti. Without endorsing the idea of quaint old Fuller, that because Yorkshire... | |
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