 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 346 pages
...with rhyme. For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem...strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung, Renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, And every stream in heavenly numbers flows. How am I pleas'd... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 396 pages
...with poetic transport I survey Th' immortal islands, and the well known sea. For here so oft the muse her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung. I beg your pardon for this sally, and will, if I can, continue the rest of my account in plain prose.... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 304 pages
...with rhyme. For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise ; Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem...strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung, Renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, And every stream in heavenly numbers flows. How am I pleased... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And etill I seem to tread on classic ground ¿ For here the...strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung, Renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, And ev'ry stream in heav'nly numbers flows. How am I pleas'd... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...with poetic transport, I survey Th'immortal islands, and the'well known sea; For here so oft the muse her harp has strung, , That not a mountain rears its head unsung*"). I beg your pardon for this sally, and will, if I can, continue the rest of my account in plain prose.... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Geology - 1824 - 440 pages
...possible, there being such numerous books of travels already extant, as to leave but little to be added ; For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung ; Renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, And ev'ry stream in heav'nly numbers flows. ADDISON'S... | |
 | Catherine Hyde marquise de Govion Broglio Solari - Italy - 1824 - 370 pages
...For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Here the sweet muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung ; Renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, And every stream in heavenly numbers flows." The Tuscans... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...resemblance is traced between these lines and the following from Addison's letter to Lord Halifax : " Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem...strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung ; Renowned in verse each shady thicket grows, And every stream in heavenly numbers flows." See Letter... | |
 | Sarah Atkins - Herculaneum (Extinct city) - 1825 - 178 pages
...CHAPTER I. " Now wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem...strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung ; Renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, And ev'ry stream in heav'nly numbers flows. " ADDI9OK.... | |
 | lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1825 - 352 pages
...with poetic transport I survey The' immortal islands, and the well known sea. For here so oft the muse her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung. I beg your pardon for this sally, and will, if I can, continue the rest of my account in plain prose.... | |
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For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground; for here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, that not a mountain rears its head unsung,... 
