 | George Frederick Graham - 1862 - 304 pages
...close, And Hope, enchanted, smiled, and waved her golden hair. 5. ' Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time where lucid Avon strayed ; To him the mighty Mother did unveil Her awful face : the dauntless child Stretched forth... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 456 pages
...Greece's evil hour, Left their Parnaflus for the Latian plains. Alike they fcorn the pomp of tyrant Power, And coward Vice, that revels in her chains. When Latium...Avon ftray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : the dauntlefs child Stretch'd forth his little arms and fmiled. " This pencil take (fhe... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...spirit lost, They sought, oh Albion I next thy sea-encircled coast. mi Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's* Darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face: The dauntless child Stretch'd forth his... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1863 - 304 pages
...infant Shakespeare, and his early familiarity with mighty Nature — " Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : The dauntless child Stretch'd forth his... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...spirit lost, They sought, O Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. in. Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty Mother did unveil Her awful face ; the dauntless child Stretch'd forth his... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...stuck upon her winding-shi .'. WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. 1564— 1G16. Far from the sun and summer pile, In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid. What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil HIT awful face : the dauntless child Strctch'd forth his... | |
 | Charles Knight - Dramatists, English - 1865 - 592 pages
...well-known line . of Gray are amongst his happiest efforts : — " Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid, What time, where lucid Avonitray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face: the dauntless child Strctch'd forth... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Ireland - 1866 - 656 pages
...infant Shakspeare, and his early familiarity with mighty Nature — " Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : The dauntless child Streteh'd forth his... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...answering still the notes that once were so dear. T. MOORE 863 SHAKESPEARE FAR from the sun and summer gale in thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, what time, where lucid Avon strayed, to him the mighty mother did unveil her awful face: the dauntless child stretched forth his... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 pages
...infant Shakespeare, and his early familiarity with mighty Nature — " Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : The dauntless child Stretch'd forth his... | |
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This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of joy ; Of horror that... 
