| James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...bounty fed ; Like the gay birds that sung them to repose , Content , and careless of to - morrow's fare. Her form was fresher than the morning - rose , When the dew wets its leaves; unstain'd, and pure, • As is the lily x or the mountain- snow. The modest virtues mingled in her... | |
| James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...bounty fed; Like the gay birds that sung them to repose, Content, and careless of to-morrow's fare. Her form was fresher than the morning rose, When the dew wets its leaves; unstain'd and pure, As is the lily, or the mountain snow. The modest virtues mingled in her eyes, Still... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...bounty fed; Like the gay birds that sung them to repose, Content, and careless of to-morrow's fare. Her form was fresher than the morning rose, When the dew wets its leaves; unstain'd and pure, As is the lily, or the mountain snow. The modest virtues mingled in her eyes, Still... | |
| James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...bounty fed: Like the gay birds that sung them to repose, Content, and careless of to-morrow's fare. Her form was fresher than the morning rose, When the dew wets its leaves ; unstain'd and pure, As is the lily, or the mountain snow. The modest virtues mingled in her eyes,... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...hounty fed, Like the gay hirds that sung them to repose, Content, aud careless of to-morrow's fare. Her form was fresher than the morning rose, When the dew wets its leaves; unstain'd and pure, As is the lily or the mountain snow. . The modest virtues mingled in her eyes,... | |
| James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...of a woody vale ; By solitude and deep surrounding shades, But more by bashful modesty, conceal'd. Her form was fresher than the morning rose, When the dew wets its leaves ; unstain'd and pure, As is the lily, or the mountain snow. The modest virtues mingled in her eyes,... | |
| J. C. - 1806 - 156 pages
...felt himself interested in their fate. Lucinda was fair, and, to use the language of Thomson — " Her form was fresher than the morning rose " When the dew wets its leaves ; unstained and pure " As is the lily, or the mountain snow ; " The modest virtues mingled in her eyes... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 472 pages
...des beautés sentimentales : quelle douce naïveté, quelle simplicité touchante dans sa Lavinie : Her form was Fresher than the morning rose, "When the dew wets its leaves ; unstain'd and pure, As ïs the lily, or the mountain snow. The modest virtue mingled in l1er eyes... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...bounty Jedj Like the gay birds that sung them to repose, Content, and careless of to-morrow's fare. Her form was fresher than the morning rose, When the dew wets its leaves; uustuiii'd and pure, As is the lily, or the mountain snow. The modest virtues mingled in her eyes,... | |
| James Thomson - 1806 - 242 pages
...bounty fed, Like the gay birds that sung them to repose, 190 Content, and careless of tomorrow's fare. Her form was fresher than the morning rose, When the dew wets its leaves; unstain'd, and pure, As is the lily, or the mountain snow. The modest virtues mingled in her eyes,... | |
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