 Right against the eastern gate, By the moss-grown pile he sate ; Where long of yore to sleep was laid The dust of the prophetic maid. Facing to the northern clime, Thrice he traced the Runic rhyme ; Thrice pronounced, in accents dread, The thrilling verse...  Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809 - Page lxxiby Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1813 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...groaning earth beneath him shakes), Till full before his fearless eyes 15 The portals nine of hell arise. Right against the eastern gate, By the moss-grown...to sleep was laid The dust of the prophetic maid. 20 Facing to the northern clime, Thrice he traced the runic rhyme, Thrice pronounced in accents dread... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Democracy - 1909 - 168 pages
...eaftern gate, By the mofs-grown pile he fate ; Where Where long of yore to fleep was laid The duft of the prophetic Maid. Facing to the northern clime, Thrice he traced the runic rhyme ; Thrice pronounc'd, in accents dread, The thrilling verfe that wakes the Dead ; Till from out... | |
 | Carlos de Mesquita - English literature - 1911 - 284 pages
...human gore distill'd. . . And long pursues with fruitless yell, The Father of the powerful spell . . . Right against the eastern gate, By the moss-grown...to the northern clime, Thrice he traced the runic rhyme ; Thrice pronounc'd, in accents dread, The thrilling verse that wakes the Dead : Till from out... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1913 - 580 pages
...Winding sheet of Edward's race. Perhaps, The Descent of Odin, in one passage of which1 it is 1 * Bight against the eastern gate By the moss-grown pile he...Facing to the northern clime Thrice he traced the runic rhyme; Thrice pronounc'd, in accents dread, The thrilling verse that wakes the dead,' impossible not... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1913 - 590 pages
...against the eastern gate By the moss-grown pile he Bate Where long of yore to sleep was laid The dost of the prophetic Maid, Facing to the northern clime Thrice he traced the runic rhyme; Thrice prononnc'd, in accents dread. The thrilling verse that wakes the dead.' Grays Professorship.... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1915 - 252 pages
...condition of scholarship at that time. The version itself is as poetical as it is exact : — Eight against the eastern gate, By the moss-grown pile he...to the northern clime, Thrice he traced the runic rhyme ; Thrice pronounced, in accents dread, The thrilling verse that wakes the Dead ; Till from out... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...Till full before his fearless eyes The portals nine of hell arise. Right against the eastern gate,1 present blessings, and to husband up Whose seeds are shed, or as an 20 The dust of the prophetic maid.2 Facing to the northern clime, Thrice he trac'd the Runic* rhyme;... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Poets, English - 1918 - 254 pages
...condition of scholarship at that time. The version itself is as poetical as it is exact : — Bight against the eastern gate, By the moss-grown pile he...to the northern clime, Thrice he traced the runic rhyme ; Thrice pronounced, in accents dread, The thrilling verse that wakes the Dead ; Till from out... | |
 | 588 pages
...The Winding sheet of Edward's race. Perhaps, The Descent of Odin, in one passage of which1 it is i 'Right against the eastern gate By the moss-grown...Facing to the northern clime Thrice he traced the runic rhyme; Thrice pronouno'd, in accents dread, The thrilling verse that wakes the dead.' impossible not... | |
 | Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1926 - 206 pages
...groaning earth beneath him shakes,) Till full before his fearless eyes The portals nine of hell arise. Right against the eastern gate, By the moss-grown...to sleep was laid The dust of the prophetic Maid. ao Facing to the northern clime, Thrice he traced the runic rhyme ; Thrice pronounc'd, in accents dread,... | |
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