 Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please, and sate the curious taste...  British Theatre - Page 56by John Bell - 1791Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...COMUS. To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, 1'rusm? r want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can Heav 710 With such a futl and umvithdrawing hand, I iver.ng the earth with odors, fruits, and flocks, Throneing... | |
 | Literature - 1913 - 878 pages
...those two speeches of the Enchanter, in which in* inveighs against the foolishness of men who praise "the lean and sallow Abstinence": — "Wherefore did...Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawlng hand, Covering the earth with odors, fruits, and flocks. Thronging the seas with spawn... | |
 | William Kitchiner - Cooking - 1845 - 454 pages
...things (Fish rapeciall;) that would be rather insipid,— without a httla Sauce of another kind. " Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth, With such a full and un-withdrawing hand. Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable ; But... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...Сом. 0 fuolisfuien of men ! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur. And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, Praising the lean and sallow abstinence. Milton. Camus, 1. 706. Ix> thou that hast no vnkinde mate to greeue thee, With vrging helpelesse patience... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...unchanging glances of affection. BYRON. UNBELIEF —(See SCEPTICISM.) VANITY. — (See PRIDE.) VARIETY. 1. Wherefore did nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, But all to please and sate the curious taste ?... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...unchanging glances of affection. BYRON. UNBELIEF, — (See SCEPTICISM.) VANITY. — (See PRIDE.) VARIETY. 1. Wherefore did nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, But all to please and sate the curious taste ?... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...abstinence ! Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumberaMo But all to please and sate the curious taste ? And set to work millions of spinning worms,... | |
 | James Young - Temperance - 1851 - 386 pages
...mix'd— O foolishness of men I that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the stoic fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, Praising the lean...bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odors, fruits, and flocks T If all the world Should, in a fit of temperance,... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...Comus. 0 foolishness of men 1 that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, Praising the lean...abstinence ! Wherefore did nature pour her bounties forth 710 With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...— Oh foolishness of men ! that lend their earg To those budge* doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, Praising the lean...bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, • " Budge," furred. Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn... | |
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