 Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of...  Poetical Works of Thomson and Gray - Page 378by James Thomson - 1861 - 425 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - 332 pages
...trembling strings. tFrom Helicon's harmonious springs, A thousand rills their mazy progress take : The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink...The rocks, and nodding groves, rebellow to the roar. 1.2. fOh! Sov'reign of the willing soul, Parent of sweet and solemn breathing airs, Enchanting shell... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...rills their mazy progress take : * Shakspeare. -f- Milton. The succession of poets after Milton's time. The laughing flowers that round them blow, Drink life...impetuous, see it pour : The rocks, and nodding groves, re-hellow to the roar. O sovereign of the willing soul, Parent of sweet and solemn-hreathing airs,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...trembling strings. From Helicon's ' harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers that round them blow, Drink life...majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres'2 golden reign : Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous, see it pour : The rocks... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...thy trembling strings, From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow. Drink...The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar. The mood and tone varies with each stanza; there is deliberate rising and falling; the language sometimes... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Poesy 23 From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: (1. 3—4) 24 Now the rich stream of Music winds along Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, (1. 7—8) 25 O Sovereign of the willing soul, Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs. Enchanting... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - 304 pages
...cumulative surge at the start of "The Progress of Poesy": A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink...majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales and Ceres's golden reign: Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous, see it pour: The rocks... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - 1996 - 500 pages
...thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: 5 The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink...music winds along Deep, majestic, smooth and strong. Thro' verdant vales, and Ceres' golden reign: 1 0 Now rolling down the steep amain. Headlong, impetuous... | |
 | David Hill Radcliffe - 1996 - 262 pages
...and burlesques Thomas Gray's "Progress of Poesy," written in imitation of the hero-praising Pindar: Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous,...The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar. (1757; ed. Lonsdale, 163) For too long, British poetry had neglected its epic quest to linger idly... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 pages
...thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink...The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar. (PTG 161-63) The 'mazy progress' of Gray's imagery and rhythm leads to an oddly onomatopoeic effect... | |
 | William Blake - 2000 - 132 pages
...trembling firings. From Helicon's harmonious fprings A thoufand rills their mazy progrefs take: -t The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich ftream of mufic winds along, Deep, majeftic, fmooih, and ftrong, Thro' Thro' verdant vales, and Ceres'... | |
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