 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 - Page 2581805Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1829 - 552 lehte
...of the County Palatine of Durham. By Robert Surtees, Esq. 3 vols. Folio. Lond. 1816—1828. ' TVTOR rough, nor barren, are the winding ways •«- ' Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers — ' The poet who said this, gathered among those ways an amaranthine wreath for himself. Mr. George... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1829 - 398 lehte
...piercing eye explores The manners and the pomp of ancient days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores : Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewed with flowers. T. WARTON. The sweet Violet, Viola odorata, when growing naturally, is found... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1829 - 314 lehte
..."Lectures on American Literature, with remarks on some passages of American History. By Samuel L. Knapp. " Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but otrevm with flowers." " Peace to the just man's memory, — let it grow Greener with years, and blossom... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 lehte
...explores New mauners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence «ills the pensive bard his pictured stores. Not h the Park full of coaches, but dusty, and windy, and cold, and now and then a li On Revisiting tJie liiecr Loddon. Ah ! what a weary race my feet have run Since first I trod thy bunks... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 282 lehte
...d Where Genius hallows an enchanted ground.— Upon that brow the seal of time hath set * Nor rude, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. WAETON. G3 A mournful grace, but left no dark regret For wither'd years, whose flow'ry bloom remains... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 338 lehte
...c Warton's soul emparadis'd his hours, And strew'd antiquity with classic flow'rs * ; • Nor rude, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. WARTON. Where'er he went saw dim cathedrals rise, Or Gothic windows in their sunset dyes. And thou,... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 lehte
...explore§ New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictur'd store§ ; Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but atrown with flowers. — (farton. Day. vIII. Cal. 25. iiuths. John Mason Good, 1764,Epping. Though... | |
 | 1833 - 240 lehte
...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. 136 THOMAS WAR/TON. WRITTEN AT STONEHENOE. THOU noblest monument of Albion's isle... | |
 | Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 434 lehte
...picrcing eye surveys New manners, and the pomp of early days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. P. 224, 1. 7. Cloud-compelling Parr. Dr. Parr loved his pipe — no man was more happy than he was... | |
 | 1841 - 908 lehte
...beautiful couplet of one of our own Poets, though intended for a wider range, is admirably apposite here, " Nor rough, nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers." 70 71 Many, who devoted themselves to the profession of arms, as well as those who sought distinction... | |
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