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" There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. "
Classic Selections from the Best Authors - Page 299
by Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 182 pages
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Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard

Thomas Gray - 1839 - 166 pages
...Couché nonchalamment, les yeux fixés sur l'eau, II aimait à rêver au doux bruit du ruisseau : " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. XXVI. / G XXVIl. I " AXXoко TÍJVO Kaт »Xaos áХш/ífi/os, ¿s TI iтfaapos MfiSióíüf Tis...
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Elegy written in a country church-yard, with versions in the Gr., Lat., Germ ...

Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 pages
...Couché nonchalamment, les yeux fixés sur l'eau, II aimait à rêver au doux bruit du ruisseau : XXVI. " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. " АХХоKа тTJVO Kат йЛо'os aX(á/ifi/os, ¿s тi o'fo'apàs MfiSioшv тir fßa, (j>pfvas...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate,...Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove, Now drooping woful wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, or cross'd in hopeless love. " One morn I miss'd...
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The American Class-reader: Containing a Series of Lessons in Reading; with ...

George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...peep of dawn,. Brushing, with hasty steps, the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 26 " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. 27 " Hard by yon wood, now smiling, as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies, he would rove ; Now...
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The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor

1840 - 516 pages
...season has Gray delineated as the favourite resort of the " youth to fortune and to fame unknown." " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes...noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that bubbles by." Which of the glorious tints that dye the woods with more than rainbow splendour, can exceed...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...chance by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate. Haply some hoary headed swain may say, " Oft have we seen him at the peep...stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. " Him have we seen the greenwood side along, While o'er the heath we hied, our labour done, Oft as...
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...hoary-headed swain may say, | " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn', | Brushing, with hasty step, the dews away, | To meet the sun upon the upland lawn,....would he stretch', | And pore upon the brook that bubbles by,. | Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn', | Mutt'ring Ais wayward fancies, he would...
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Readings in poetry: a selection from the best English poets, from Spenser to ...

Readings - 1843 - 466 pages
...lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate; Haply some hoary-headed swain 22 may say, " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn,...his wayward fancies, he would rove! " Now drooping, woful wan! like one forloru, "Or crazed v.Kh care, or crossed in hopeless love. " One morn I mi:*'d...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...of nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonoured ; and that, whenever he is sick, they have prayers...the recovery of his health in all the synagogues. готе ; Now drooping, woful, wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...tale relate; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate; Maply woful, wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love. One morn I missed him...
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