 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 634 pages
...the eye along his sinuous course Delighted. There, fast rooted in ther bank, Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond, and ovcrthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the... | |
 | Canniff Haight - 1895 - 634 pages
...Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; l'ASTLE KOCK. While far beyond and overthwart the stream That, as...with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land reaches into the clouds, Displaying in its varied side the grace Of hedgerow beauties numberless, square... | |
 | William Cowper - 1896 - 348 pages
...along his sinuous course 165 Delighted. There, fast rooted in their bank, Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary...stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, 170 The sloping land recedes into the clouds; Displaying, on its varied side, the grace Of hedge-row... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900 - 346 pages
...course 165 Delighted. There, fast rooted in their bank, Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, 170 The sloping land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedgerow... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 204 pages
...winding through a level plain Of spacious meads, with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conducts the eye along his sinuous cour.se Delighted. There, fast rooted in their...hut ; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, A3 That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying... | |
 | Canniff Haight - 1904 - 684 pages
...Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; CASTLE KOCE. While far beyond and overthwart the stream That, as...with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land reaches into the clouds, Displaying in its varied side the grace Of hedgerow beauties numberless, square... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1926 - 912 pages
...Ch. X, 70 a. overthwart, a metrical, literary variant of athwart, as in : Far beyond, and overihwart the stream, | That, as with molten, glass, inlays...vale. | The sloping land recedes into the clouds. COWPER, Task, I, 69. to within, as in: He would have liked to .. flog him to within an inch of his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 716 pages
...sinuous .course Delighted. There, fast rooted in their bank, Stand, never overlooked, our fav'rite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While...stream That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, 170 The sloping land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 948 pages
...the eye along his sinuous course Delighted. There, fast-rooted in his bank, Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary...; While far beyond and overthwart the stream That at mth molten glass inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds, Displaying on its varied... | |
 | George Campbell Macaulay - 1908 - 280 pages
...winding through a level plain Of spacious meads, with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conducts the eye along his sinuous course Delighted. There, fast rooted in their...the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds." (The Task, i. 163 ff.) On this or some similar scene Sainte-Beuve justly remarks, " On copierait ce... | |
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Here Ouse, slow winding through a level plain Of spacious meads, with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conducts the eye along his sinuous course Delighted. There, fast rooted in their bank, Stand, never overlook'd, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's... 
