 | 1877 - 506 pages
...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rook-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in...the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...forms,, | and hoary seers' of ages past', | All in one mighty sepulchre. | The hills, | Rock-ribb'd, and ancient as the sun' ; | the vales', | Stretching...""complaining brooks' | That make the meadows green, ; | and, pour'd round all' | Old ocean's grey, and melancholy waste', | Are but the solemn decorations all',... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...one mighty sepulehre. — The hills R'H'k-ribb'd. and ancient as the sun. — the vales stretohins in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, pour'd round Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,—, [all, Are but the solemn decorations all Of... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 pages
...that move In majesty, and the complaining brooka That make the meadows green ; and, pour'd round aD, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste ; Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. Remark 1. — Whatever inflection may have been given 8 word or passage, when first expressed, it has... | |
 | Thomas Moule - 1842 - 276 pages
...heraldry ; but an undulated line expressive of waves, and conveying the idea of water, is commonly used. - Rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green, are equally depicted on the shields of feudal lords where privilege or potency is necessary to be shown.... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, AH in one mighty sepulchre. 5. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in...meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's grey and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. 6. The... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 294 pages
...sun,—the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods—rivers that move la majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the...the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 278 pages
...Fair forms, and hoary seers, of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribb'd, and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and, pour'd round all Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 pages
...Fair forms, and hoary seers, of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribb'd, and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, pour'd round Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— [all, Are but the solemn decorations all Of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 280 pages
...— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and, pour'd round all Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, —...the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death,... | |
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The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and... 
