| John Bell - 1799 - 402 pages
...times past are, Or who cleft the devil's foot: Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep oft'envy's stinging, And find What wind .Serves to advance an...honest mind. If thou be'st born to strange sights, 10 Things invisible go see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee :... | |
| English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...mandrake root, Tell me where all times past are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot ; Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee : Thou, when thou return'st, wilt... | |
| George Ellis - 1803 - 468 pages
...impressions. SONG. Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find...What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou beest born to strange sights, Things invisible to see ; Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 pages
...mandrake root, Tell me where all times past are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot. Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find....Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou be'st born to s* range sights, Things invisible go see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 802 pages
...root, Tell me where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the devil's foot; Teach me to heare mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find...What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou beest born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand dales and nights, Till age... | |
| George Ellis - 1811 - 472 pages
...impressions. SONG. Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find...What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou beest born to strange sights, Things invisible to see ; Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 402 pages
...star, ***** Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil's foot. Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find...thou be'st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, And swear, No where Lives a woman true and fair. If thou... | |
| Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 pages
...* # * * Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil's foot. Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find...thou be'st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee ; Thou, when thou return's!,... | |
| William Michael Rossetti - 1878 - 512 pages
...root ; Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot ; Teach me to hear Mermaids singing,— Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. s If thou bcest born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights,... | |
| Jakob Schipper - 1888 - 630 pages
...all times past are, Or who cleft the devil's foot : Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep of envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. Die nachstehende Strophe (AABfj'c!>£) eines Liedes von Suckling gehört gleichfalls hierher (Poets... | |
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