...Mortimer,|| and cnuch'd his quiv'ring lance. 1.2. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old (Jon way's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With...hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air); * This Ode is founded on n tradition current In Wales, that Edward tbe l-'ir-t, whcu he complrted lite...

...The Bard, from Gray. On a rock whose haughty brow Frown'd o'er old Conway's foaming flood Robed in sable garb of woe With haggard eyes the Poet stood : Loose his beard, and hoary hair, Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air, Weave the warp and weave the woof The winding sheet of...

...strong imaginative currency for a long time: On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With...Prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. These 'deep sorrows' struck a note which vibrated through the remaining decades of the eighteenth century....

...prophesies the doom of Edward and his entire line: On a rock, whose haughty brow Frown'd o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With...hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air. Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race.88 The effect of the bard's...

...material — with suitable Snowdonia scenery: O« a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway 's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With...eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air) And, with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck...

...curse, from Cambria's tears!' (1. 6—8) 3 On a rock, whose haughty brow. Frowns o'er old Conway's Dis . (1. 1-4) 4 Modred, whose magic song Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloud-topped head. (1. 5-6) 5 '"Weave...

...Edward III, avenger of his father Edward II, as the scourge [Fig. 42] utilizes Gray's description: Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes...stood; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream'd, like meteors, to the troubled air). In his illustration, Blake transferred the meteor image from the hair...

...Macpherson and Percy On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed m the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard and hoary hait Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled ait) And, with a master's hand and prophet's fire, Struck...

...following passage: On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in a sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream' d, like a meteor, to the troubled air) . . . Gray's poem is one of the foundation stones of...

...borrowed 'from a well-known picture of Raphael, representing the Supreme Being in the vision of Ezekiel: With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air) And, with a master's hand and prophet's fire, Struck...