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" Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes. "
Allegro und Penseroso - Page 12
by John Milton - 1782 - 31 pages
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The Merchant's Clerk: And Other Tales

Samuel Warren - 1836 - 392 pages
...Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; 30 Meadows trim, with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom'd high in tufted trees !"* • Such is the enchanting picture drawn by the mighty pencil of John Milton, which 1 heard Lord...
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The Young Lady's Book of Classical Letters: Consisting of Epistolary ...

Conduct of life - 1836 - 342 pages
...barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim, with daisies pied; Shallow hrooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom'd high in tufted trees. Hard by, a cottajre-cliimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks," &c. It was neither the proper season...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide. Towers and battlements it sees Boosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The Cynosure of neigh'bring eyes. Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged okes, Where Corydon and...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide. Towers and battlements it sees Boosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The Cynosure of neigh'bring eyes. Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged okes, Where Corydon and...
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The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic ..., Volumes 13-14

Numismatics - 1873 - 906 pages
...Cynosure. The reader will remember Milton's use of this •word : " Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes." L'ALLEOKO, 77. 9 On all coins that I have seen the form of the word precludes the possibility of its...
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, Legends of ...

Thomas Bulfinch - Chivalry - 1913 - 972 pages
...caught new pleasures While the landscape round it measures. Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies The Cynosure of neighboring eyes." The reference here is both to the Pole-star as the guide of mariners, and to the...
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The Central literary magazine, Volume 4

Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...his eye observes not only the simplicity of rural life, but " Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees. Where, perhaps, some beauty lies, The Cynosure* of neighbouring eyes. Yet how like to the England of to-day, " Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes," where some " neat-handed...
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A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the ...

Max Kaluza - English language - 1911 - 422 pages
...Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide; T6wers and battlements it sees B<5som'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes. Coleridge used the freer four-beat verse in Christabel; eg: They passed the hall, that echoes still,...
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The Golden Age of Myth & Legend

Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...caught new pleasures While the landscape round it measures. Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes. The reference here is both to the Pole-star as the guide of mariners, and to the magnetic attraction...
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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Articles and Reviews ...

William Butler Yeats - Autobiography - 1989 - 440 pages
...day standing in the window looking at that old grey house421 and repeating Milton's lines: Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes. A queer story comes into my memory. An old Sligo shop-keeper was out riding. He met the Sligo Harriers....
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