Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied,... The British Prose Writers - Page 291821Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1782 - 40 pages
...in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landskip round it measures; 70 Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast Komm dann der Traurigkeit zum Trotze, und biete mir einen guten Morgen, durchs Fenster, an meinem mit... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...hawthorn in the dale. Strait mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landskip round it measures, 70 Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling...flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest, Meadows trim with daisies pied, 75 Shallow brooks and rivers wide. Towers... | |
| John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...o'er the furrow'd land, And the milk-maid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And ev'ry shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the...flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest, Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide. Towers... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...conveyed the same meaning as uniform does to us. '' Straight mine eye hath caught fiew pleasures, While the landscape round, it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray j 40 Mo.untai>u, »n \\hose barren breast ; The lab'rin£ clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim, with... | |
| John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landskip round it measures, Russet lawns, and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains, on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest, Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide. Towers... | |
| Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landskip round it measures, Russet lawns, and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains, on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest, Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide. Towers... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Strait mine eye hath ca\ight new pleasure! Whilst ihe landskip round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows gray,...flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest, Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide. Towers... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 336 pages
...us, at one glance, and, as it were, with a single dash of his pen, Russet lawns, pnd fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains, on...barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Mecdows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide. The objects themselves are cheerful... | |
| William Jones - 1807 - 452 pages
...hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures : Russet lawns, and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast, The lab'ring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim, with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milk-maid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd...flocks do stray ; Mountains on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest, Meadows trim, with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide, Towers... | |
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