 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 370 pages
...OF MAN. Wisdom and virtue are the only destinies appointed to man to follow. AN ARCADIAN LANDSCAPE. There were hills which garnished their proud heights...the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding in sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 484 pages
...It is pleasant to imagine that our poet had the following beautiful passage in hia thoughts : — " There were hills which garnished their proud heights...the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds : each pasture stored with sheep, feeding with sober security, while the pretty Iambs with bleating... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 334 pages
...which he and his fair sister thus passed their early years : — • ' There were hills,' he says, ' which garnished their proud heights with stately trees...the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 938 pages
...It is pleasant to imagine that our poet had the following beautiful passage in his thoughts : — " - - silverrivers : meadows, enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers; thickets, which being lined... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...PRESENT TIME.) SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.' 1. A SCENE IN ARCADIA. (FROM THE " ARCADIA," WRITTEN ABOUT 1580.) THERE were hills which garnished their proud heights...stately trees ; humble valleys, whose base estate (lowly con\* Literature, aa distinguished from mere writing, which had fallen into the shade since... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 418 pages
...happiness by the way of such experience or no. 3. Fiom Sir Philip Sidney's ' Arcadia ' : — about 1580.1 There were hills which garnished their proud heights...lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so to by the cheerful disposition of many well- tuned birds; each pasture stored with 1 Sir Philip Sidney... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...and by welcomed Musidorus's eyes (wearied with the wasted soil of Laconia) with delightful prospects. There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees ; humble valleys, whose bare estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers; meadows enamelled with all sorts... | |
 | William Martin - 1870 - 360 pages
...sweet and full of the most touching descriptions. Of Arcadia itself he says : " There were hills that garnished their proud heights with stately trees ;...lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so to by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...those books which may be best appreciated by specimens. This description of scenery, for instance : " There were hills which garnished their proud heights...comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers; meadows enameled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets which being lined with most pleasant shade... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...rivers: meadows, enameled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers : thickets, which being lined wilh most pleasant shade were witnessed so too, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds : each pasture stored with «heep, feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating... | |
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There were hills, which garnished their proud heights with stately trees ; humble valleys, whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers: .meadows, enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing' .flowers ; thickets, which being lined... 
