 Gaze on the solemn scene : behold yon oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the pale plain beneath him : mark yon altar, The dark stream brawling round its rugged base, These cliffs, these yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted...  Poems - Page 157by William Mason - 1774 - 3 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Mason - 1764 - 280 pages
...the Lyrical part fung by the Bards. CARACTACUS,, A DRAMATIC POEM, t AULUS DIDIUS,. with Romans. TH IS is the fecret centre of the ifle : Here, Romans, paufe,...eye of wonder Gaze on the folemn fcene ; behold yon oaki How ftern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the pale plain beneath him : mark yon... | |
 | English literature - 1783 - 508 pages
...paflages which we fhall proceed to confider. Aulus Didius opens the Drama with the following lines : 1 This is the fecret centre of the ifle. Here, Romans,...behold yon Oak, How ftern he frowns, and with his broad brows arms Chills the pale plain beneath him :'' — They are thus rendered by Mr. GlafTe. Nijirov... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1783 - 504 pages
...paflages which we mail proceed to confider. Aulus Didius opens the Drama with the following lines : ' This is the fecret centre of the ifle. Here, Romans,...paufe, and let the eye of wonder Gaze on the folemn fcenfe ; behold yon oak, How ftern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the pale plain beneath... | |
 | William Mason - English poetry - 1803 - 252 pages
...Here, Romans, pause, and let the eye of wonder Gaze on the solemn scene; behold yon oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the...pale plain beneath him: mark yon, altar, The dark stream brawling round its rugged base, These cliffs, these yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted... | |
 | Alexander Hunter - Agriculture - 1803 - 622 pages
...form most beautiful heads, and their shade will be extensive and large ; -Behold yon Oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms .Chills the pale plain beneath him. KAflOV. The Oak will grow and thrive upon almost any soil, provided the trees be properly planted,... | |
 | William Mason - English literature - 1811 - 536 pages
...Here, Romans, pause, and let the eye of wonder Gaze on the solemn scene : behold yon oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the...pale plain beneath him : mark yon altar, The dark stream brawling round its rugged base, These cliffs, these yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted... | |
 | William Mason - Gardens - 1811 - 404 pages
...Here, Romans, pause, and let the eye of wonder Gaze on the solemn scene : behold yon oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the...pale plain beneath him : mark yon altar, The dark stream brawling round its rugged base, These cliffs, these yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...Here, Romans, pause, and let the eye of wonder Gaze on the solemn scene ; behold yon oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the...pale plain beneath him : mark yon altar, The dark stream brawling round its rugged base, These cliffs, these yawning caverns, this wide circuSj Skirted... | |
 | Thomas Jeffrey Llewelyn Prichard - English poetry - 1828 - 214 pages
...Here, Romans, pause, and let the eye of wonder Gaze on the solemn scene; behold yon oak, How stern be frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the pale plain beneath him: mark yon altar, The dark stream' brawling round its rugged base; — These cliffs — these yawning caver-is — this wide circus.... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...Here, Romans, pause, and let the eye of wonder Gaze on the solemn scene ; behold yon oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the pale plain beneath hjm: mark yon altar, The dark stream brawling round its rugged base, These cliffs, these yawning caverns,... | |
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