 | John Gay - 1826 - 376 pagine
...Fleet-street posts, consign*d to fame, This work shall shine, and walker* bless my name. A BALLAD. I. 'TWAS when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts...lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd. Wide o'er the roaring billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows, That tremble o'er the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pagine
...the seas were roaring With hollow Ы ists of wind, A rlums!'! lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. an bless, if mortals will be kind. Conscious of wanting worth, he v crowned with willows, That trembled o'er the hrook. * Twelve months are gone anrt over, And nine long... | |
 | 1835 - 378 pagine
...time and death shall be no more. 'TWAS WHEN THE SEAS WERE ROARING. JOHN GAY. Born 1688— Died 1732. 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts...reclin'd : Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wishful look, Her head was crown'd with willows, That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve months are gone... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pagine
...time and death shall be no more. 'TWAS WHEN THE SEAS WERE ROARING. JOI1X GAY. Bora 168S— Died 1/22. 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts...reclin'd : Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wishful look, Her head was crown'd with willows, That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve months arc gone... | |
 | Garland - 1836 - 246 pagine
...Damon, bid thy Muse display The justice of thy Chloe's sorrow." JOHN GAY, Born \6S8,died 1732 SONG. 'TwAS when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined : Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; — Her head was crowned with willows,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, Charles Fox - 1841 - 290 pagine
...same kind. Upon a mountain Beneath a fountain. 196. Three Iambuses with hypermeter of the same kind. 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. 197. Four Iambuses. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage. 198. Five... | |
 | Robert Gordon LATHAM - 1843 - 236 pagine
...x 3 +. The alternation of the two varieties of xa x 3 constitutes what may be called Gay's stanza. 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crowned with willows... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1843 - 236 pagine
...: 1 . Gay's Stanza. — Lines of three measures, xa, with alternate rhymes. The odd rhymes double. 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, AH on a rock reclined. 2. Common Octosyllabics. (Seep. 197.) — Four measures, xa, with rhyme, and... | |
 | William Dobson - 1845 - 204 pagine
...litera; interiores. Atque hsec domestica. Cicero to Appius. WEDNESDAY, September 22. Into Latin Elegiacs. Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts...crown'd with willows, That trembled o'er the brook. How can they say that nature Has nothing made in vain j Why, then, beneath the water Do hideous rocks... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 pagine
...when the seas were roaring — A damsel lay deploring. The last two couplets mixed alternately, thus : 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. Gray. xa X 4. His aspect and his air imprest A troubled memory on my breast, And long upon... | |
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Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows, That trembled o'er the brook. 
