| Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...disporting, own a kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil. The hills Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, the vales Stretching in pensive...complaining brooks That make the meadows green, and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1851 - 380 pages
...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of... | |
| Stephen Watkins Clark - English language - 1851 - 204 pages
...Earth that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth to be resolved to earth again. The hills, Hock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in...complaining brooks, That make the meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the... | |
| Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Elocution - 1851 - 328 pages
...where erst the song And reckless shout resounded. 5. Solemnity and Sublimity. The hills, " Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales, Stretching...complaining brooks, That make the meadows green, — and, poured 'round all, Old ocean's gray and melartcholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of... | |
| Elocution - 1851 - 312 pages
...of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,—the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between; The...complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1842 - 322 pages
...sim ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable wuocls ; rivers that move ^ f In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the...the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. Remark 1. — Whatever inflection may have been given a word or passage, when first expressed, it has... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1852 - 610 pages
...good, Fair forms, and hoary feers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribb'd, p N ! - R V v ˁ 6 C|,m mm d X sjq z be( K Dӕ T | p 纇Vh G '% Vw 3 y q _ pH = 4 Old ocean's gray and mélancholy waste, — [all Are hut the solemn declarations'all Of the great tomb... | |
| 1852 - 620 pages
...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribb'd, and ancient as the sun — the vales Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and pourM round all Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the... | |
| David Thomas - 1852 - 236 pages
...good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales, Stretching in pensive...complaining brooks, That make the meadows green, and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulcher. 6. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales, Stretching...complaining brooks, That make the meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of... | |
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