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" To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood... "
Gardeners' Chronicle - Page 270
1875
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, with Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 542 pages
...that hath banish'd you. To-day, my lord of Amiens, and myself, Did steal behind him as he lay along new ribbons to •- pumps ; meet presently at tho palace : every look o'er his part ; To the which place a poor scquestcr'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...that hath banish'd you. To-day, my lord of Amiens, and myself, Did steal behind him, as he lay along under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunters' aim had ta'en a hurt. Did come...
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Shakspeare's Seven Ages: Or, The Progress of Human Life

John Evans - 1831 - 322 pages
...find it delineated. Lord. To-day, my Lord of Amiens, and myself, Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor sequester'd stag; That from the hunters' aim had ta'cn a hurt, 5* Did come...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 33

1833 - 1034 pages
...No enemy But winter and rough weather!" A few touches give the glimmer and gloom of old trees — " Under an oak whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along the wood." And we see glimpsing by, with " forked heads," the " poor dappled fools," the " native burghers...
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Shakspeare's Seven Ages of Man: Or, The Progress of Human Life. Illustrated ...

John Evans - 1834 - 306 pages
...it delineated. Lord. To-day, my Lord of Amiens, and myself, Did steal behind liim, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor seqvester'd stag, That from the hunters' aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come...
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edited by Thomas Dick Lauder

William Gilpin - 1834 - 370 pages
...huntsman. The melancholy Jacques is introduced by the poet reposing on the ground : As he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood, To the same place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to...
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Some studies in the formation of character

Charlotte Maria Mason - 1923 - 484 pages
...just, true, and beautiful in thought and expression. For instance, one man reads — "... He lay along, Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood ; To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come...
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Some New Letters of Edward FitzGerald

Edward FitzGerald - 1923 - 204 pages
...of "As You Like It" :— To-day my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood, etc. etc. etc. etc. 1 Historical painters. The words quoted by FitzGerald occur actually in another...
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The Principles of English Metre

Egerton Smith - 1923 - 352 pages
...(Spencer's last long speech), IV. ii, passim, and the whole of iv. iv, for the more outstanding examples. Under an oak whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood ; To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunters' aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come...
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Modern Philology, Volume 20

1923 - 468 pages
...independence of the lines which describe the attitude of Shakespeare's melancholy Jacques: He lay along Under an oak whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along our wood.2 William Mason says, in a note to his Elegy Written in a Church-Yard in South Wales, that...
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