 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe. And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames ! for thou hast...pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pllant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral f What idle progeny succeed To chase... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...second sprin '. Say, father Thanie?, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting ontby margent green, The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arms, thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...father Thames, for thou hast se«n Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent green, Tiic cesimus Knox arms, thy glassy wave? The rapiivv linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase- the,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...a second spring. 1 King Henry the Sixth, founder of the college. 1 And bees their honey redolent of spring. Say, father Thames, for thou hast seen Full...pliant arm thy glassy wave ? . The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?... | |
 | John Brand - Great Britain - 1810 - 508 pages
...of other puerile Diversions, are taken from Mr. Grey's Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College : " Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen " Full many a sprightly Race, " Disporting on thy Margent gre£ n, " The Paths of Pleasure trace, " Who foremost now delight to cleave " With pliant Arm thy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...hast seen Full many a sprightly race )isporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, A'ho foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed 'o chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball?... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...stretch'd in vain to reach the prize; What female heart can gold despise ? What cat's averse to fish ? Say, father Thames, for thou hast seen. Full many a sprightly race Disporting on ihy rnargent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1810 - 510 pages
...are taken from Mr. Grey's Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College : " Say, Father Thames, for thon hast seen " Full many a sprightly Race, " Disporting on thy Margent green, " The Paths oi' Pleasure trace, " Who foremost now delight to cleave " With pliant Arm thy glassy Wave ? 2 o The... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...'The gales are represented here as personified, and With wings from which they wave fresh odours. " Say, father Thames, (for thou hast seen Full many...pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the circle's rolling speed, Or urge the flying ball ?... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. 20 Say, father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race NOTES. Ver. 19. And, redolent of joy and youth] " And bees their honey redolent of spring," Dryden's... | |
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Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave... 
