 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
 | John William Stanhope Hows - American drama - 1865 - 592 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... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1866 - 300 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... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - English language - 1875 - 558 pages
...mission. From William Mason's tragedy of " Caractacus," we quote next : "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... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1875 - 402 pages
...force and grandeur, as to pause it to be considered an emblem of strength. " Behold yon oak How stern he frowns, and, with his broad brown arms, Chills the pale plain beneath him." Much has been written and said about planting and preserving Oaks, and perhaps too little attention... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 868 pages
...the eye of wonder Gaze on the solemn scene ; behold yon oak. How stern he frowns, and with his brood 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... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 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... | |
 | Administration of estates - 1882 - 940 pages
...preceding page, well recalling Mason's description in " Caractacus "— —" Behold yon oak, • How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the pale plain beneath him." The^Yew (Taxus baccata) may be considered as a tree equal, if not superior in endurance to the oak,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1904 - 362 pages
...understood ' how blank he frowns.' " The passage as it now stands is : " behold yon oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the pale plain beneath him." he only did it to remember to tell me of some minutiae which he thought inaccurate ; but that he thought... | |
 | Edward Douglas Snyder - Comparative literature - 1923 - 250 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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