 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 240 sidor
...eyed The spring beneath the tree } And thus the dear old Man replied, The grey-hair'd Man of glee. " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot chuse but think How oft, a vigorous Man, I lay Beside this Fountain's brink. 128 My eyes are dim with... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 sidor
...eyed The spring beneath the tree; And thus the dear old Man replied, The grey-hailed Man of glee.— " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...flows. " And here, on this delightful day,- ' I cannot chuse but think How oft,, a vigorous Man, I lay Beside this Fountain's brink. " My eyes are dim with... | |
 | 1819 - 792 sidor
...they never wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free." " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows." When he does turn his attention upon life, we find always the most beautiful echoes of Christian tenderness... | |
 | 1819 - 808 sidor
...they never wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free." " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows." When he does turn his attention upon life, we find always the most beautiful echoes of Christian tenderness... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 382 sidor
...melancholy associations of youth remembered in age, expressed in the following stanzas of Wordsworth : — " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...now It flows. " And here, on this delightful day, T cannot choose but think, How oft a vigorous man I lay Beside this fountain's brink. " Mine eyes are... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 sidor
...the dear old man replied, The grey-haired man of glee : • Down to tbe vale this water steers, Bow merrily it goes ! Twill murmur on a thousand years,...flows. • And here, on this delightful day, I cannot chute but think Bow oft, a vigorous man, I lay leside this Fountain's brink. • My eyes are dim with... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton, Cyril Thornton (Fictional Character.) - 1829 - 362 sidor
...melancholy associations of youth remembered in age, expressed in the following stanzas of Wordsworth : — Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it...this delightful day, I cannot choose but think, How off a vigorous man I lay Beside this fountain's brink. Mine eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 sidor
...replied, The gray-haired man of glee : " Down to the vale this water steers, How merrily it goes ! 'T will murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. And here, upon this delightful day, I cannot choose but think • How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this... | |
 | 1832 - 406 sidor
...wave the old, but yet strong and leafy boughs ; beside them runs the river along its rocky bed ; — " Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows :" but the home of ancient state is stripped bare of all that once adorned it, nor roof nor floor remains... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 628 sidor
...lively songs, in a strain of transitory sadness, such as is often evoked by a summons to be gay : — ' Down to the vale this water steers — How merrily...flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot chuse but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. My eyes are dim with childish... | |
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Down to the vale this water steers : How merrily it goes ! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years. And flow as now it flows. 
