Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers. The Quarterly Review - Página 293editado por - 1825Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1870 - 304 páginas
...amid the vestiges and monuments of perished centuries are full of pleasure and profit. " Nor rough and barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers." But there is no study which requires more plain and practical good sense. Imaginative minds become,... | |
| 1871 - 730 páginas
...manners, and the pomp of" elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Net raugh nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. That which could not be effected by the entreaties of his family was ultimately brought about by a... | |
| 1872 - 602 páginas
...explores New manner?, and the pomp of elder days Whence culls the pensive bard his piclur'd stores ; Nor rough, nor barren are the "winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers." Joseph Warton. Without endorsing- the idea of quaint old Fuller, that because Yorkshire is the largest... | |
| Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - 1886 - 332 páginas
...Dodsworth's Monasticon that an accomplished poet wrote : Thence culls the pensive bard his pictur'd stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. The local antiquaries of the future would be particularly grateful to Sir James Picton and his coadjutors... | |
| David M. Main - 1886 - 342 páginas
...explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers. TO THE RIVER LODON. AH ! what a weary race my feet have run, •**• Since first I trod thy banks... | |
| Samuel Waddington - 1888 - 272 páginas
...explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers. TO MARY UNWIN. t ARY II want a lyre with other strings, Such aid from heaven as some have feigned they... | |
| Samuel Waddington - 1888 - 272 páginas
...explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers. TO MARY UNWIN. £ ARY II want a lyre with other strings, Such aid from heaven as some have feigned... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1889 - 586 páginas
...explores New manners and the pomp of elder days ; Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers." IDENTITY OF THE AUTHOR WITH HIS BOOKS. [From the Essay " On the Jealousy and the Spleen of Party."]... | |
| John Wood Warter - 1891 - 478 páginas
...many bygone associations ; for, as Thomas Warton expressed himself in and on Dugdale's ' Monasticon,' Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. It was at this time that the volunteer and yeomanry corps were gathered together, to the number of... | |
| Laurence Hutton - 1892 - 202 páginas
...explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers." Robert Burns, a contemporary of Warton, frequently expressed his affection for his friends upon the... | |
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