(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. England and Wales - Page 1911876Full view - About this book
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...Latium had her lofty spirit lost, They sought, O Albion ! next, thy sea-encircled coast. III. 1. Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was...and smiled. " This pencil take," she said, "whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy ! This can unlock... | |
| English literature - 1846 - 484 pages
...I'infant adte of the gentle and lovely Victoria, as he was of the vain and implacable Elizabeth. " ' Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was nature's darling laid.' " O, Brown! poetry is a most seducing thing! ' "Would the gods had made thee poetical;' then you would... | |
| George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...spirit lost, They sought, O Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. III. 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 Stretch'd forth his... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 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, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty Mother did unveil Her awful face : The dauntless Child Stretch'd forth his... | |
| George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...spirit lost, They sought, O Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. III. 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 Stretch'd forth his... | |
| Walter Percival - Annuals, American - 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 was...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... | |
| Theology - 1854 - 562 pages
...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 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 Stretch'd forth his... | |
| 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, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : the dauntless child Stretch'd forth his... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...characters of Shakspeare, Milton, and Dryden :— Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green Inp colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine', too, these golden keys, immortal boy ! This can... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...the following graphic delineation of the poetical characters of Shakspeare, Milton, and Dryden : Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was...where lucid Avon strayed, To him the mighty mother did unvail Her awful face : the dauntless child Stretched forth his little arms, and smiled. ' This pencil... | |
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