And, when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or... The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors - Page 265by Ezekiel Sanford - 1819Full view - About this book
| Edward Dayes, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Artists - 1805 - 432 pages
...are indicative of tranquillity j and dark blue, dark grey, and brown, of sorrow or melancholy : • me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine MILTON'S IL PENSEKOSO. Mellow tones ever associate with the gentle, and sharp ones with violent emotions.... | |
| James Hingston Tuckey - Aboriginal Australians - 1805 - 272 pages
...undisturbed retreat. Often at the calm hour of evening I have wandered through the woods, Where the rude ax with heaved stroke Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd hauntj, The last hymn of the feathered choiristers to the setting sun, and the soft murmurs of the... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...piping loud; Or usher'd with a shower still, When'the gust hath blown his fill, Ending on the rustling leaves, With minute drops from off the eaves. And...brown that Sylvan loves, Of pine or monumental oak, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt, There, in close covert,... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...piping loud, Or usher' d with a shower still, When the gust has blown his fill, Endisg on the rustling leaves, With minute drops from off the eaves. And when the sun begins to fling His flarirg beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan... | |
| Elizabeth Strutt - 1807 - 274 pages
...were doomed to bend. bend. All the consolation he could receive was, that their venerable shades, " Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never...nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunti;" had hitherto been spared for the future interest of his son; and that the same motive now... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...piping loud, Or usher'd with a shower' still, When the gust hath blown his fill, Ending op the rustling leaves, With minute drops from off the eaves. And...Sylvan loves Of pine or monumental oak, Where the rude ax with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Of fright them from their hallow'd haunt*... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 490 pages
...piping loud ; Or usher' d witti a shower still, When the gust has blown his fill, Ending on the rustling leaves, With minute drops from off the eaves. And...loves, Of pine, or monumental oak : Where the rude ax, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt;... | |
| Anecdotes - 1809 - 562 pages
...which entertains him is perfectly free from artificial decoration. Our poet's pensive man retreats To arched walks of twilight groves^ And shadows brown...heaved stroke Was never heard the nymphs to daunt. If there are any allusions to the topiary art in Arcades, they were intended as a compliment to his... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...blown his nil, Ending on the rustling leaves, With minute drops from off the eaves. And when the snn begins to fling His flaring beams, me, goddess, bring...loves, Of pine, or monumental oak : Where the rude ax, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from ihl ir hallow'd haunt;... | |
| John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1809 - 946 pages
...begins to fling His flaming beams me, goddcfs bring To arched walks of twilight grove«, And fliadowj brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved (Iroke Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt." By Salvator... | |
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