...his quivering lance. On a rock whose haughty brow Vnm us o'er old Conway's foaming flood, )-' 'i!>M in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streaui'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air); And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck...

...hanghty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the sable garb of Woe, With haggard eye the poet stood ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled airj And with a master's band and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark how each...

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...applied to the beard and hair of the Weljh Bard by Gray, has been deemed rather ludicrous: " Loofe his beard and hoary hair " Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air" Yet Gray may be defended by a paflage in the Perfian Tales of Inatulla, vol. ii. p. 41. " The circumference...

...couch'd his quivering lance. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old runway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the sable garb of woe, - With haggard eyes the...lyre. " Hark, how each giant-oak, and desert cave, S'zhi to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee,oh king ! their hundred arms they weave, Revenge...

...believ'd. GRAY'S Odes, ' Bard. On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet...prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. GRAY'S Odes. Beauty. In wit, as nature, what affects our hearts, Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts:...

...couch'd his quivering lance. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet...(Loose his beard', and hoary hair Stream'd, like a mr-teor, to the troubled air*) And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows...

...launches his little bark into the ocean of public discrimination. . ' THE BARD. CHAP. I. • '- Rob'd in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood : And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. (,'ja* IjOUD howled...

...Sempronius says, " My voice is still for war. See what Addison says, Spectator, Vol. IV. No. 309. " (Loose his beard and hoary hair . .Stream?d like a meteor to the troubled air.)'" GRAY'S Bard. This simile seems to have been suggested by a passage in Milton, Par. Lost, b. I. where...

...picture of his Bard : " On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the sable garb of woe, , With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air ;) And with a poet's hand and prophet's fire Struck the...