| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 pages
...good — Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages pasl, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in...brooks That make the meadows green — and, poured round all, Old ocean's grey and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great... | |
| 1826 - 602 pages
...any one can possess are a love of Nature and of books. THE DEPARTURE. -" Tboa símil lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sephulchre." BRYANT. AND shrink ye from the way To the spirits' distant shore ? Earth's mightiest men,... | |
| 1822 - 298 pages
...Shalt thou retire alone — :nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent : Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The...ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between The venerable... | |
| 1879 - 1042 pages
...that any one has more vividly described the Earth as 'the great tomb of man.' ' The hills, Hock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green, and, pourcJ round all, Old ocean's grey and melancholy wasteAre but the solemn decorations all Of the great... | |
| 1822 - 858 pages
...Shalt thou retire alone — nor conld'st thou wish Couch more magnificent : Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world— with kings, The...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All iu one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-rihb'd and ancient as the sun,.— the vales Stretching in... | |
| 1822 - 824 pages
...ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the rales Stretching in pensive quietness between The venerable...brooks That make the meadows green — and, poured round all, Old Ocean's grey aud melancholy waste,— Arc but the solemu décorations all Of the great... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...Shalt thou retire alone — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The...ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable... | |
| 1824 - 408 pages
...Shalt thou retire alone — nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent: thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The...ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between The venerable... | |
| 1825 - 412 pages
...wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with king1 The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good,...complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured roui all, Old ocean's grey and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great... | |
| 1825 - 426 pages
...With patriarchs of the infant world — with lings The powerful of the earth — the wise, the go»d, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one...between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move Tn majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round Old ocean's grey... | |
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