| British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...untanght harmony of spring, Wbile, whisp'ring pleasure as they fly, Cool aephyrs thro' the clear blue sky Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader, browner shade, Where'er the rnde and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pages
...whispering pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gather'd fragrance fling. Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader,...brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease rcclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, Kow low, how little are the proud. How... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pages
...water's rushy brink \Vith me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vmin the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great ! Still is the toiling hand of Care : The panting herd's repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pages
...pleasure as they fly, (":»>! Z<-phyrs through the elear blue sky Their ¡ratherd fragrance fling. Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader,...browner shade ; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech СУег-canopies the glade1, F.<-sn!e some water's rushy brink \Vith me the Muse shall sit, and think... | |
| Alexander Graydon - 1811 - 394 pages
...concerns, as to identify my conceptions with those of the poet, where he exclaims, How vain the ardor of the crowd* How low, how little are the proud,' How indigent the great ! The amusements I have been speaking of, were of no advantage to me as a student ; but what was lost... | |
| Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...whisp'ring pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs thro' the clear blue sky Their gather 'd fragrance fling. 10 Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader...O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink 15 With me the muse shall sit, and think NOTES. Ver. 5. The Attic warbler pours her throat] Martial.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pages
...Come water's rufhy brink With me the mufe fhall fit and think .(At eafe reclin'd in ruftic ftate,) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great ! Still is the toiling hand of care : The panting herds repofe: Yet, hark, how through the peopled... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...whispering pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gather'd fragrance fling. Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader,...O'er-canopies the glade ; Beside some water's rushy brink Wild me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the... | |
| 1818 - 596 pages
...to be erected, with the fallowing lines: — BEAUTIES OF BRITISH POETS. FROM GRAY'S ODE TO SPRING. Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think, At ease reciin'd in rustic elate, How vain tfie ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pages
...whisp'ring pleasure as they fly, Cool zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gather'd fragrance fling. Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader...brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud. How... | |
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