 | 1889 - 366 sivua
...death five years afterwards gave him a theme for a monody which contained the following lines : — IN vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps t» descry ; Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 416 sivua
...have satisfied the fastidious taste of Gray, the reader may not be unwilling to have transcribed : " In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry ; Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 sivua
...poet's relations, and when Quin spoke Lyttelton's prologue many of the audience wept. From the 'Monody.1 me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so of footsteps to descry ; Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 502 sivua
...following pathetic stanza from his Monody, which was much admired by Gray, 2 may illustrate this remark : In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry ! Where oft we used to walk. Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 528 sivua
...following pathetic stanza from his Monody, which was much admired by Gray,2 may illustrate this remark : 1n vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry ! Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1922 - 184 sivua
...finding within its grasp that simplicity of diction in which deep feeling is most happily expressed. In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry, Where oft we us'd to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go down... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1924 - 222 sivua
...in full, and is besides very unequal in quality, but the following passage I will here quote : — " In vain I look around, O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry ; Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go... | |
 | Eric Partridge - 1924 - 284 sivua
...fmding... that simplicity of diction in which deep feeling is most happily expressed", as in the lines : In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry, Where oft we us'd to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go down... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1926 - 306 sivua
...... it is interesting to recall a passage in Lord Lyttelton's Elegy on his wife published in 1747: In vain I look around O'er all the well-known Ground My Lucy's wonted Footsteps to descry : Where oft we us'd to walk, Where oft in tender Talk We saw the Summer Sun go... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 sivua
...Lady A Monody [N vain I look around O'er the well-known ground, My LUCY'S wonted footsteps to descry ; Where oft we us'd to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go down the sky ; Nor by yon fountain's side, Nor where its waters glide Along the... | |
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In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry ; Where oft we us'd to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer Sun go down the sky... 
