 | John Milton - 1707 - 480 pages
...with fpeeches fair ' '• tf M. • J - • • S«- • She woo's the gentle Air .- \-.r \ 1 , r; f To hide her guilty front with innocent Snow, And on her naked mame, . , , : .« : ,..t.,. ' * . * " *• " * Pollute with finful blame, The Saintly Veil of Maiden... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
...It was no feafon then for her 35 To wanton with the fun her lufly paramour. II. Only with fpeeches fair She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent fnow, And on her naked mame, 40 Pollute with finful blame, The faintly veil of maiden white to throw,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...thought, unsuitable to the dignity of the subject, and of the rest of the ode, that, " she wooed the air, to hide her guilty front with innocent snow," And on her naked .shame, f Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw, [ .!„•,- ( Confounded that... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...While the Heav'n-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in awe to him Had dofft her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize...for her To wanton with the sun her lusty paramour. li. Only with speeches fair She wooes the gentle Air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow; And... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature, in awe to him, Had doff'd her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize...sun, her lusty paramour. Only with speeches fair She wooes the gentle air II. To hide her guilty front with innocent snow ; And on her naked shame, Pollute... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature, in awe to him, Had doff'd her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize...sun, her lusty paramour. Only with speeches fair She wooes the gentle air II. To hide her guilty front with innocent snow ; And on her naked shame, Pollute... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...the heav'n born child, ' All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature in awe to him Had dofft her gaudy trim. With her great Master so to sympathize ; It was no season then for her fo wanton with tbe sun, her lusty paramour." This conceit sprang from the adventitious circumstance... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...While the heav'n born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature in awe to him Had dofft her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize •. It was no season tlien for her To wanton with the sun,ber lusty paramour." This conceit sprang from the adventitious... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 554 pages
...consigning spinning, weaving, dying, and other formerly domestic employments, to different trades. She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow.' 1 '' ODES. Hymn on the Nativity, v. 89. Hath not this Cowleyan conceit an impropriety in bringing •snow... | |
 | 1845 - 624 pages
...manger lies ; Nature in awe to Him Had doffi her gaudy trim With her great Master so to sympathize. Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air, To...blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw. Thus communing as it were with the scenery around us, and calling up its holy associations, we reached... | |
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It was the winter wild While the heaven-born Child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature in awe to Him Had doffed her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize : It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour. 
