 | Thomas Gray - 1847 - 276 pages
...lost, They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. m. 1. Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time,...dauntless Child Stretch'd forth his little arms, and smiled. " This pencil take," she said, " whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year: Thine too... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 pages
...coast. III. Far from the sun and summer-gale In thy green lap was Nature's darling* laid, * Shakspeare. What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty...and smil'd. " This pencil take," she said, " whose colors clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal boy ! This can... | |
 | Walter Percival - 1848 - 382 pages
...through that poetical medicine which Gray has so beautifully conjured up in his Progress of Poetry. " Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap...nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stayed, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face; the dauntless child Stretched forth his... | |
 | 1854 - 562 pages
...them a real gem, thus describes our two great poets, Sliakspere and Milton, and glances at Dryden. " Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap...Stretch'd forth his little arms and smil'd. This pencil lake (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the venial year; Thine too, these golden keys, immortal... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. • III. 2. " Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time,...arms, and smil'd. This pencil take, she said, whose colors clear, Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy ! This can unlock... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 492 pages
...lines of Gray are among his happiest efforts : — " Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy grecn lap was Nature's Darling laid, What time, where lucid...smil'd. ' This pencil take,' she said, ' whose colours elear Richly paint the verual year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy ! This can unlock the... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...add the following graphic delineation of the poetical characters of Shakspeare, Milton, and Dryden : Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap...Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon strayed, To him the mighty mother did unvail Her awful face: the dauntless child Stretched forth his... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 492 pages
...his sceptre, dropping blood." t The well-known lines of Gray are among his happiest efforts : — " Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap...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... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1851 - 400 pages
...coast. III. Far from the sun and summer-gale In thy green lap was Nature's darling* laid, * Shakspeare. What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face j the dauntless child Stretch'd forth his little arms and smil'd. " This pencil take," she said, "... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pages
...lost, [coast. They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled in. 1. 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 V. 83. "... | |
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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, and thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. 
