 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...explore§ New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictur'd store§ ; Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but atrown with flowers. — (farton. Day. vIII. Cal. 25. iiuths. John Mason Good, 1764,Epping. Though... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...wreath, She sits amid the quire of Naiads trim. THOMAS WAKTON. WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF DUGDALE's MONASTICON. DEEM not, devoid of elegance, the sage,...winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers. THOMAS WARTON. WRITTEN AT STONEHEHGE. THOU noblest monument of Albion's isle ! Whether by Merlin's... | |
 | English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...turns, of these proud domes, th' historic page, Now sunk by time, and Henry's fiercer rage. Think 'st thou the warbling Muses never smil'd On his lone hours...winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers. 136 THOMAS WAR/TON. WRITTEN AT STONEHENOE. THOU noblest monument of Albion's isle ! Whether by Merlin's... | |
 | Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 434 pages
...picrcing eye surveys New manners, and the pomp of early days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. P. 224, 1. 7. Cloud-compelling Parr. Dr. Parr loved his pipe — no man was more... | |
 | John Wodderspoon - Suffolk (England) - 1839 - 334 pages
...estates. But enough of these noble relics for the present. Well may the poet exclaim — " Nor rnde nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers." There is indeed a beauty and a delight inherent in these ancient matters taking our best feelings prisoner,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1841 - 778 pages
...piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictnr'd stores. Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers.' — p. 96. The example of Thomas Warton incited many of his contemporaries to cultivate the sonnet.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 400 pages
...and illuminated the feudal priest, with the love of the votary, who deemed, in his " lone-hours," " Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers." His miniature is exquisitely touched. " He was not only the poet of his monastery, but of the world... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 428 pages
...and illuminated the feudal priest, with the love of the votary, who deemed, in his " lone-hours," " Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers." His miniature is exquisitely touched. " He was not only the poet of his monastery, but of the world... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 426 pages
...illuminated the feudal priest, with the love of the vo-* tary, who deemed, in his " lone-hours," " Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers." His miniature is exquisitely touched. " He was not only the poet of his monastery, but of the world... | |
 | 1841 - 908 pages
...beautiful couplet of one of our own Poets, though intended for a wider range, is admirably apposite here, " Nor rough, nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers." 70 71 Many, who devoted themselves to the profession of arms, as well as those... | |
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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. 
