 | William Upcott - 1818 - 740 pages
...Family of Foley. Folded, p. 465. SUPPLEMENT to the COLLECTIONS for the HISTORY of WORCESTERSHIRE. " Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers."— WARTON'S Sonnet. " Credtbile non est quantum scribam die quinetiam noctibus." — TuLLIl Epist. Printed... | |
 | William Upcott - Bibliotheca topographica britannica - 1818 - 516 pages
...Family of Foley. Folded, p. 465. SUPPLEMENT to the COLLECTIONS for the HISTORY of WORCESTERSHIRE. " Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn w ith flowers." — WARTON'S Sonnet. " Credibile nan est quantum scribam die quinetiam noctibus."... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1822 - 446 pages
...genuine feelings unbeguil'd, Of painful pedantry the poring child; Who turns, of these proud domes, the' historic page, Now sunk by Time, and Henry's, fiercer...winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers. Wl1ITTEN AT STONEHENGE. THOC noblest monument of Albion's isle ! Whether by Merlin's aid from Scythia's... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 326 pages
...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. WRITTEN AT STONEHENGE. THOU noblest monument of Albion's isle! Whether by Merlin's aid from Scythia's... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...warbling Muses never smil'd On his lone hours ? Ingenuous views engage His thoughts, on themes, unclaseic </ rv. WRITTEN AT STONEHENGE. Thou noblest monument of Albion's isle ! Whether by Merlin's aid from Scythia's... | |
 | Sarah Atkins - Herculaneum (Extinct city) - 1825 - 178 pages
...Chapter will contain a farther account. CHAPTER VIII. " While literature displays Her mouWring scroll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp...barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flawers." WABTOH. WITH all the zeal of an antiquary, I entered the saloon of the palace,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...piereing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whenee eulls the pensive bard his pietur'd ual flame, Like them in beauty, should be like rv. WRITTEN AT STONEHENGE. Thou noblest monument of Albion's isle ! Whether by Meriin's aid from Seythia's... | |
 | 1825 - 668 pages
...piercing eye explores New manners and the pomp of elder days ; Whence cull» the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers." This Sonnet, if it were not for a certain intricacy in the style, would be a... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 556 pages
...more strongly tinctured by his romantic and chivalrous reading, and by the spirit of our elder poets. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. Thus he expressed himself, and the truth of this was exemplified in all his writings.... | |
 | Luke Booker - 1825 - 190 pages
...never tread upon them but we set Our foote upon some reverend Historic." Webster-i Dvchess of llalfty. "Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers." Warton. Printed and sold at the Office of the late J. JJinton, »OR MESSRS. NICHOLS,—MESSRS.... | |
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Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictur'd stores. Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers. 
