 And seemed to mock the ruin he had wrought. As some fierce comet of tremendous size, To which the stars did reverence, as it passed : So he through learning, and through fancy took His flight sublime ; and on the loftiest top Of Fame's dread mountain...  The course of time: a poem - Стр. 175авторы: Robert Pollok - 1827Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | English poetry - 1853 - Страниц: 552
...and worn, As if he from the earth had laboured up ; lint, as some bird of heavenly plumage fair, Ho looked, which down from higher regions came, And perched it there, to see what lay beneath. POLLOK. THE DESERTED HALL. THE gloom Of a deserted banquet-room :— To sco tho spider's web outvie... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1855 - Страниц: 442
...loftiest top Of Fame's dread mountain sat; not soiled and worn As if he from the earth had labored up ; But as some bird of heavenly plumage fair, He...looked, which down from higher regions came. And perched itj there, to see what lay beneath. The nations gazed, and wondered much, and praised ; Critics before... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1855 - Страниц: 508
...soiled and worn, As if he from the earth had labored up, But as some hird of heavenly plumage fan-, He looked, which down from higher regions came, And perched it there, to see what lay beneath." Alas, we say again, that, it should be so ; that the lofty genius, before whom the species all bow... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1855 - Страниц: 520
...loftiest top Of fame's dread mountain sat ; not soiled, and worn, As if he from the earth had labored up ; But as some bird of heavenly plumage fair, He looked, which down from highei regions came, And perched it there, to see what lay beneath. Great man ! the nations gazed and... | |
 | 1855 - Страниц: 662
...dread monntain sat, not soiled and worn. ESSAY ON POETRY. As if he from the earth had labored up, Bnt as some bird of heavenly plumage fair, He looked, which down from higher regions eame, And perched it there, to see what lay beneath. " The nations gazed, and wondered much and praised.... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - 1858 - Страниц: 420
...loftiest top Of fame's dread mountain sat ; not soiled, and worn, As if he from the earth had labored up ; But as some bird of heavenly plumage fair, He...came, And perched it there to see what lay beneath. , Great man ! the nations gazed and wondered much, And praised : and many called his evil good. Wits... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - Страниц: 482
...loftiest top Of Fame's dread mountain sat : not soiled, and worn, As if he from the earth had labored up ; But as some bird of heavenly plumage fair, He looked, which down from higher regions came, 9. The nations gazed, and wondered much, and praised, Critics before him fell in humble plight ; Confounded... | |
 | James Barnett Taylor - 1860 - Страниц: 532
...not seem as we do, soiled and worn, as if he had labored up the steep ascent, " but as some bright bird of heavenly plumage fair, he looked, which down...and perched it there, to see what lay beneath. " The faculties we possess must be nursed with energy. With weaker wings we dare not imitate his flight.... | |
 | James Barnett Taylor - 1860 - Страниц: 546
...soiled and worn, as if he had labored up the steep ascent, "but as some bright bird of heavenly plumnge fair, he looked, which down from higher regions came, and perched it there, to sco what lay beneath." Tho faculties we possess must be nursed with energy. With weaker wings wo dare... | |
 | 1861 - Страниц: 144
...loftiest top [worn, Of Fame's tdread mountain sat ; not soiled and As if he from the earth had labored up ; But as some bird of heavenly plumage fair, He...from higher regions came, And perched it there, to Bee what lay beneath. The nations gazed, and wondered much, and Critics before him fell in humble plight,... | |
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