 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1842 - 366 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 slrown with flowers." His miniature is exquisitely touched. " He was not only the poet of his monastery,... | |
 | William Gresley - Reformation - 1843 - 284 pages
...piercing eye explores New manners anil 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. Sonnet on Dugdale's Monmtiam, BY J. WARTOS. THE HISTORY OF MEKEVALE ABBEY, BY... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Criticism - 1847 - 462 pages
...Ode to Sleep. 0 what's a table richly spread Without a woman at its head ! Progress of Discontent. Nor rough, nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers. In Dugdale's Monasticon. Warton's best poem, as a whole, is the Inscription in a Hermitage : — Beneath... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1847 - 572 pages
...Ode to Sleep. O what's a table richly spread Without a woman at its head ! Progress of Discontent. Nor rough, nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers. In Dugdale's Monusticon. Warton's best poem, as a whole, is the Inscription in a Hermitage : — Beneath... | |
 | 1847 - 280 pages
...enquirer; proving that the study of antiquarian lore is not without its pleasures and gcatifications :— Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. Mark Browell, the father, married again; the name of his second wife was Jane,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1872 - 676 pages
...— lueever, &c., 13;i. Notes on Books, &c. flatta. AN AFTERNOON AT JERVAULX ABBEY IN* WEXSLEYDALE. " While cloister'd piety displays Her mouldering roll,...barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers.'1 Joseph lí'artoti. Without endorsing the idea of quaint old Fuller, that because... | |
 | Silchester - 1850 - 82 pages
...BRITONS. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF PEESONS CONNECT WITH THE PLACE. COMPILED TBOM AUTHENTIC 'SOUBCES " Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways . Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers." — Wharton. SIXTH EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. BASINGSTOKE : PRINTED & SOLD... | |
 | John Clarke (architect.) - 1851 - 174 pages
...piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder davs, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores! Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers. — T. Warton. MERITS OF THE PERPENDICULAR STYLE CONSIDERED — SUBDIVISION OF STYLES — DOMESTIC... | |
 | 1851 - 574 pages
...THE AUTHOR OK "THE SYMBOLICAL CHARACTER OF MEDIAEVAL HERALDRY, AND ITS CONNECTION WITH FREEMASONRY." "Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers." — WIRTOS. HERALDRY has, since its existence as a science, been considered a... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 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 strewn with flowers. WRITTEN AFTER SEEING WILTON HOUSE.| FROM Pembroke's princely dome, where mimic... | |
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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. 
