 | John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...of Hie fallen angels. * The following passage of Gray has been quoted as an imitation, of Ibis : " Loose his beard, and hoary hair, Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air." 1 think the following passage in Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope" is much more appropriate .— " \Vbera... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1851 - 518 pages
...life, Dear as these eyes that weep in fondness o'er ihee.' Gray tells us that the image of bis ' Bard* Loose his beard and hoary hair, Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air,* was taken from a picture of the Supreme Being by Raphael. It is, however, remarkable, and somewhat... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air); * This OHe is founded on a tradition current in Wales, thai jgdward tie First, when he completed the... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood : (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air4) And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...John Adey Repton, FSA with early England. When Gray would depict the extreme misery of bis bard, he says — Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air. How, again, did the hand of Michael Angelo revel in the creation of the beard of Moses ? What other... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 598 pages
...John Adty Repton, FSA with early England. When Gray would depict the extreme misery of his bard, he says — Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air. How, again, did the hand of Michael Angelo revel in the creation of the beard of Moses ? What other... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how each... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air) ; And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how each... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...o'er old Con way's foaming flood, E-obed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire. Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. " Hark, how each... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 542 pages
...o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, AVith haggard eye the poet stood. Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air." — [Gray.] Of these lines, the two first present a picture which the imagination naturally views from... | |
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On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's... 
