| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 pages
...true — this troth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains,...; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the cheqner'd shade. The morning hower, the ev'ning... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1817 - 308 pages
...true—this truth you lovers know—• " In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, " In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes " Of hanging mountains,...to happier seats it flies, " And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. " What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, " The morning bower, the... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 346 pages
...true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens: Joy lives Hot here ; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay... | |
| Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...'tis true—this truth you lovers know— In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes, Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens: Joy lives not here,—to happier seats it flies, A nd only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...'tis true — this truth you lovers know ; In vaio my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains,...here, to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where WORTLEY casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, The morning bower, the evening... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 694 pages
...'tis true — this truth you lovers know ; In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains,...here, to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where WORTLEY casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, The morning bower, the evening... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...'tis true—this truth you lovers know— In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains,...greens: Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, 5 And only dwells where WORTLET casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, The... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...'tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains,...greens : Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, 5 And only dwells where WORTLEY casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, The... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...lives not here, to happier seats it flies, 5 And only dwells where WORTLEY casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, The morning bower, the ev'ning colonnade, But soft recesses of uneasy minds, To sigh unheard in, to the passing winds ? 10 So the struck deer in some sequester'd... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...'tis true — this truth you lovers know ; In rain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In rain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains...here, to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, The morning bower, the evening... | |
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