| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 352 pages
...rolling (kies : For every kind, by thy prolific might, Springs, and beholds the regions of the light. Thee, Goddefs, thee the clouds and tempefts fear :...prefence difappear: For thee the land in fragrant flowers is dreft j For thee the ocean (miles, and fmooths her wavy breaft; And Heaven itielf with more... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 366 pages
...rolling flcies : For every kind, by thy prolific might, Springs, and beholds the regions of the light. Thee, Goddefs, thee the clouds and tempefts fear :...prefence difappear: For thee the land in fragrant flowers is dreft ; For thee the ocean fmiles, andfmooths her wavy bread; And Heaven itfelfwith more... | |
| 1783 - 188 pages
...! what wonder then, And here, for ever fix his reign ! WM. WHITEHEAD, On the other, a Buft of P AN. Knit with the graces, and the hours in dance Leads on th' eternal Spring. Here univerfal Pan, VENUS. Thee, goddefs, thee the clouds and tempefts fear, And at thy pleafing pretence... | |
| Gentleman of Oxford - 1788 - 188 pages
...reign! •; •• - > WM. WHITEHEAD, Efi|, A'Bnft of PAN on the other fide. Here univerfal Pan, Buft of VENUS. Thee Goddefs, thee the clouds and tempefts fear, And at thy pleating prefence difappe.tr: . For thee the land in fragrant flowVs it drefs'd. DRYDEN, from Lucretius.... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1793 - 544 pages
...vernal ai.r¿ L... ¿rea;hiog thc fruell o ñeld and arove, The trembling leaves, while univerl'al Pan,' Knit with the Graces, and the ‘Hours in dance, ‘ Leads on the eternal fpring !.‘.. No wonder then if the inhabitants, the better to enjoy thefe variou3 beauties,... | |
| Ditchley (England) - 1795 - 178 pages
...And here for ever fix his reign ? ' WM. WHITEHEAD, A Buft of PAN on the other fide. Here nnivcrfal Pan, Knit with the Graces, and the Hours in Dance,...BUST OF VENUS. Thee, Goddefs, thee the Clouds and Tempcfls fear, And at thy pleafmg prefence difappear : For thee the Land in fragrant Flow'rs is drefs'd.... | |
| Oxford (England) - 1796 - 180 pages
...on the other fide. • . Here univerfal Pan, Knit with the Graces, and the Hours in Dance, Leads oa th' eternal Spring. MILTON. BUST OF VEN-US Thee, Goddefs, thee the Clouds and Tempcfts fear, And at thy pleafmg prefence difappear : For thee the Land in fragrant Flow'rs is drefs'd.... | |
| George Atkinson (serjeant-at-law.) - 1801 - 372 pages
...apply; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, The trembling leaves. While universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Leads on th' eternal spring." * And we may venture (holding in our hands the lives of those we have mentioned) to say, that not a... | |
| 1803 - 200 pages
...plants. On either fide of it are bufts of VENUS and APOLLO, with the following inscriptions : Buft of VENUS. Thee Goddefs, thee the clouds and tempefts fear, And at thy pleafing prefence disappear : For thee the land in fragrant fiow'rs is drefs'd. DRYDEN, from Lucretius. Buft of APOLLO.... | |
| Earl George Simon Harcourt Harcourt - Great Britain - 1806 - 90 pages
...by the {hrubs. On either fide are bufts of Venus and Apollo, with the following infcriptions. Buft of VENUS. Thee, Goddefs, thee the clouds and tempefts fear, And at thy pleating prefence difappear: For thee the land in fragrant flowers is drefs'd. DRYDEN, from Lucretius.... | |
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