..."Lectures on American Literature, with remarks on some passages of American History. By Samuel L. Knapp. " Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but otrevm with flowers." " Peace to the just man's memory, — let it grow Greener with years, and blossom...

...explores New mauners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence «ills the pensive bard his pictured stores. Not h the Park full of coaches, but dusty, and windy, and cold, and now and then a li On Revisiting tJie liiecr Loddon. Ah ! what a weary race my feet have run Since first I trod thy bunks...

...d Where Genius hallows an enchanted ground.— Upon that brow the seal of time hath set * Nor rude, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. WAETON. G3 A mournful grace, but left no dark regret For wither'd years, whose flow'ry bloom remains...

...c Warton's soul emparadis'd his hours, And strew'd antiquity with classic flow'rs * ; • Nor rude, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. WARTON. Where'er he went saw dim cathedrals rise, Or Gothic windows in their sunset dyes. And thou,...

...explore§ New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictur'd store§ ; Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but atrown with flowers. — (farton. Day. vIII. Cal. 25. iiuths. John Mason Good, 1764,Epping. Though...

...piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictur'd stores. Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers. 136 THOMAS WAR/TON. WRITTEN AT STONEHENOE. THOU noblest monument of Albion's isle...

...cloister'd Picty displays Her mouldering roll ; the picrcing eye surveys New manners, and the pomp of early days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores....winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. P. 224, 1. 7. Cloud-compelling Parr. Dr. Parr loved his pipe — no man was more happy than he was...

...beautiful couplet of one of our own Poets, though intended for a wider range, is admirably apposite here, " Nor rough, nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers." 70 71 Many, who devoted themselves to the profession of arms, as well as those who sought distinction...

...the Johnsons, whose very voices we seem to hear as they move about almost under our eyes. " Not rude nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers,.' one has said who was himself both an antiquary and a poet; and doubtless there is at least iu some...

...piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictnr'd stores. Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers.' — p. 96. The example of Thomas Warton incited many of his contemporaries to...