 | Sketches - Agriculture - 1848 - 422 pages
...to swallow, and too hard to bite. Inglorious victory ! Ye Cheshire meads, Or Severn's flow'ry vales, where Plenty treads, Was your rich milk to suffer...alone Thus turn the mead's sweet nectar into stone." There are many causes which make certain districts famous above others : the merit does not lie wholly... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...perfect spite, nglorious victory ! Ye Cheshire meads, Or Severn's flowery dales, where plenty tre»d«, Was your rich milk to suffer wrongs like these, Farewell your pride ! farewell renowned chetse! The skimmer dread, whose ravages alone. Thus turn the mead's sweet nectar into stone. Neglected... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...Too big to swallow, and too hard to bite. Inglorious victory ! Ye Cheshire meads, Or Severn's flowery dales, where plenty treads, Was your rich milk to...nectar into stone. Neglected now the early daisy lies : r thou, pale primrose, bloom'st the only prize ! Advancing Spring profusely spreads abroad Flowers... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - 1852 - 190 pages
...hog-trough rests in perfect spite, Too big to swallow, and too hard to bite. load, Inglorious victory ! Ye Cheshire meads, Or Severn's flow'ry dales where Plenty treads, Was your rich milk to sufferwrongslike these. Farewell your pride ! farewell renowned cheese ! The skimmer dread, whose ravages... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - 1855 - 290 pages
...Too big to swallow, and too hard to bite. Inglorious victory ! Ye Cheshire meads, Or Severn's flowery dales, where plenty treads, Was your rich milk to...now the early daisy lies : Nor thou, pale primrose, bloom'st the only prize : Advancing Spring profusely spreads abroad Flowers of all hues, with sweetest... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...Too big to swallow, and too hard to bite. Inglorious victory ! Ye Cheshire meads, Or Severn's flowery t these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband...attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-lea SPRING-FLOWERS. — LOVB AXD HOPE ; VERDURE i SHEEP ASD SHEPHERDS. Neglected now the early daisy lies... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...Too big to swallow, and too hard to bite. Inglorious victory ! Ye Cheshire meads, Or Severn's flowery s the neighboring From thence a length of burning...ears ; Bank weeds, that every art and care defy, Re alono Thus turn the mead's sweet nectar into stone. SFRIXG-FLOWE&S. — LOVE AND HOPE ; VERDURB } SHEKP... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - Children's poetry - 1857 - 354 pages
...of life, And, like the oaken shelf whereon 'tis laid, Mocks the weak efforts of the bending blade ; Was your rich milk to suffer wrongs like these, Farewell...The skimmer dread, whose ravages alone Thus turn the meads' sweet nectar into stone. Neglected now the early daisy lies ; Nor thou, pale primrose, bloom'st... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - Country life in literature - 1857 - 248 pages
...rests in perfect spite, Too big to swallow, and too hard to bite. (1) MS. and. Inglorious victory ! Ye Cheshire meads, Or Severn's flow'ry dales, where...treads, Was your rich milk to suffer wrongs like these, 265 Farewell your pride ! farewell renowned cheese ! The skimmer dread, whose ravages alone Thus turn... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - Book ornamentation - 1858 - 146 pages
...the hog-trough rests in perfect spite, Too big to swallow, and too hard to bite. Inglorious victory ! Ye Cheshire meads, Or Severn's flow'ry dales, where...these, Farewell your pride ! farewell, renowned cheese ! 14 SPRING. The skimmer dread, whose ravages alone Thus turn the meads' sweet nectar into stone. Neglected... | |
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And, like the oaken shelf whereon 'tis laid, Mocks the weak efforts of the bending blade ; Or in the hog-trough rests in perfect spite, Too big to swallow, and too hard to bite. Inglorious victory ! Ye Cheshire meads, Or Severn's flow'ry dales, where... 
