 | Free Public Library (New Bedford, Mass.) - 1853 - 700 pages
...body, by the simplicity and regularity of his habits. Many could say of him, until within a year, " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn, Brushing with hasty steps the dews away. " We shall see him no more. But it was a happiness to know him ; it is a pleasure to remember him.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1853 - 200 pages
...dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If, 'chance, by lonely Contemplation led, XXV Haply, some hoary- headed swain may say: "Oft have we seen him, at the peep of dawn, XXV* " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech. That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, XXVff... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, 25. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn, Brushing, with hasty step, the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 26. There, at the foot of yonder nodding... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1854 - 352 pages
...lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate. 25. Haply, some hoary-headed swain may say, " Oft have we seen him, at the peep...dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland -lawn. 26. " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old, fantastic roots so high, His... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of...the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 100 "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 304 pages
...chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of...the dews away "To meet the sun upon the upland lawn [" P "Mark'd them for his own" likewise echoes the phrasing of the Epitaph—"And Melancholy marked... | |
 | Richard Bradford - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 284 pages
...which the poer similarly apptopriares the voice of a 'hoary-headed swain'. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, 'Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty sreps the dews away To meat the sun upon the upland lawn. Gray's and Harrison's language and experience... | |
 | Stephanie Sandler - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 388 pages
...by lonely contemplation led, 95 Some kindred Spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed Swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of...the dews away "To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 100 "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech "That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, "His... | |
 | William Blake - Art - 2000 - 132 pages
...text around she strews" "Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse," "Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate Haply some hoary headed swain may say Oft &c" "Haply some hoary-headed swain may say," "Slow thro the Churchway path we saw him borne" 'Slow... | |
 | Nigel Fabb - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 244 pages
...following quatrain. Trochaic inversion here marks a line-group. Haply some hoary-headed Swain may say, 97 'Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn 'Brushing...the dews away 'To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 100 Thomas Gray. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'. 1751 (L:37) Line 97 has the first trochaic... | |
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Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 
