 Gaze on the solemn scene : behold yon oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the pale plain beneath him : mark yon altar, The dark stream brawling round its rugged base, These cliffs, these yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted...  Poems. By William Mason, M.A.: Containing, Odes, Elegies, Dramatic Pieces ... - Page 128by William Mason - 1764 - 252 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...Here, Romans, pause, and let the eye of wonder Gaze on the solemn scene ; behold yon oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the pale plain beneath hjm: mark yon altar, The dark stream brawling round its rugged base, These cliffs, these yawning caverns,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1829 - 528 pages
...tree, such as Mason has so beautifully described in his Caractacus, — " Behold yon oak, How stern he frowns, and, with his broad brown arms, Chills the pale plain beneath him." The sketches (Jigs. 14, 15, 16.), to which we have just alluded, will more distinctly exemplify our... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Here, Romans, pause, and let the eye of wonder Gaze on the solemn scene ; behold yon oak, How stern urned to chide : Twas Edwin's self that prest ! '...Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see stream brawling round its rugged base ; These cliffs, these yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 564 pages
...Here, Romans, pause, and let the eye of wonder Gaze on the solemn scene ; behold yon oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the...pale plain beneath him : mark yon altar, The dark stream brawling round its rugged base, These cliffs, these yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1852 - 408 pages
...Here, Romans, pause, and let the eye of wonder Gaze on the solemn scene ; behold yon oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the pale * plain beneath him : mark you altar, The dark stream brawling round its rugged base, These cliffs, these yawning caverns, this... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...forest can be admitted as its rival in majestic and venerable decay : — - Behold yon Oak How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the pale plain beneath him. MASON. See Mag. Nat. Hat., Vols. 1 and 3, for valuable details respecting the Oak. THE bird that sees... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...Here, Romans, pause, and let the eye of wonder Gaze on the solemn scene. Behold yon oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the...pale plain beneath him ; mark yon altar, The dark stream brawling round its rugged base, These cliffs, these yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...Here, Romans, pause, and let the eye of wonder Gaze on the solemn scene ; behold yon oak. How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the...pale plain beneath him : mark yon altar, The dark stream brawling round its rugged base ; These cliffs, these yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted... | |
 | Amusements - 1863 - 404 pages
...forest can be admitted as its rival in majestic and venerable decay : — " Behold yon Oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the pale plain beneath him." The circumference of one of the oaks in Ampthill Park, Bedfordshire, is upwards of forty feet at its... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...here, Romans, pause, and let the eye of wonder gaze on the solemn scene ; behold yon oak, how stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms chills the...pale plain beneath him : mark yon altar, the dark stream brawling round its rugged base, these cliffs, these yawning caverns, this wide circus, skirted... | |
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