 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
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry - 110 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 the northern clime, Thrice he traced the Runic rhyme ; Thrice pronounced, in accents dread, The thrilling verse that wakes the dead : Till from out... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Engelse digkuns - 1894 - 400 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. 20 Facing to the northern clime, Thrice he traced the runic rhyme ; Thrice pronounced, in accents dread,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English literature - 1894 - 252 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 pronounc'd, in accents dread,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 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...laid The dust of the prophetic maid. Facing to the northem clime, Thrice he traced the Runic rhyme ; Thrice pronounced, in accents dread, The thnlling... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...considering the condition of scholarship at that time. The version itself is as poetical as it is exact : — Right against the eastern gate, By the moss-grown pile he sate ; Where long of yore to sleep waa laid The dast of the prophetic Maid. Facing to the northern clime, Thrice he traced the runic rhyme... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 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...the prophetic Maid. Facing to the northern clime, Thrioe he traced the runic rhyme ; Thrice pronounced, in accents dread, The thrilling verse that wakes... | |
 | Foeke Buitenrust Hettema, J. H. van den Bosch, Roeland Anthonie Kollewijn - Dutch philology - 1904 - 610 pages
...earth beneath him shakes,) Till full before his fearless eyes The portals nine of hell arise. Bight against the eastern gate, By the moss-grown pile he...prophetic Maid. Facing to the northern clime, Thrice he trac'd the runic rhyme ; Thrice pronounc'd, in accents dread, The trilling verse that wakes the Dead... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...earth beneath him shakes), is Till full before his fearless eyes The portals nine of hell arise. 20 25 Where long of yore to sleep was laid. The dust of...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 the... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1913 - 594 pages
...The Winding sheet of Edward's race. Perhaps, The Descent of Odin, in one passage of which1 it is * 'Right against the eastern gate By the moss-grown...Facing to the northern clime Thrice he traced the runic rhyme; Thrice pronounc'd, in accents dread, The thrilling verse that wakes the dead.' Grays Professorship.... | |
 | 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... | |
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