 I saw I could some invention draw, And raise pleasure to her height, Through the meanest object's sight. By the murmur of a spring, Or the least bough's...  Reuben Apsley - Page 228by Horace Smith - 1827Full view - About this book
 | George Wither - 1622 - 476 pages
...; Whence she should be driven too, Were't in mortal's power to do. She doth tell me where to borrow Comfort in the midst of sorrow, Makes the desolatest...the blackest discontents To be pleasing ornaments. In my former days of bliss, Her divine skill taught me this, •f-That from every thing I saw, I could... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...will. Whence she should be driven too, Were't in mortals power to do. She doth tell me where to borrow Comfort in the midst of sorrow, Makes the desolatest...the blackest discontents To be pleasing ornaments. In my former days of bliss Her divine skill taught me this, That from every thing I saw I could some... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 474 pages
...power to do. She doth tell me where to borrow Comfort in the midst of sorrow, Makes the desolates! place To her presence be a grace, And the blackest discontents ' To be pleasing ornaments. In my former days of bliss Her divine skill taught me this, That from every thing I saw I could some... | |
 | Books - 1804 - 994 pages
...will. Whence she should be driven too, Wcrc't in mortals power to do. She doth tell me where to borrow Comfort in the midst of sorrow, Makes the desolatest place To her presence be a gr;ice. And the blackest discontent! To be pleasing ornaments. In my former clays of bliss Her divine... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...(Whence she would be driven, too, Were't in mortal's power to do.) She doth tell me where to borrow Comfort in the midst of sorrow : Makes the desolatest...the blackest discontents To be pleasing ornaments. In my former days of bliss, Her divine skill taught me this, That from every thing I saw, I could some... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...(Whence she would be driven, too, Were't in mortal's power to do.) She doth tell me where to borrow Comfort in the midst of sorrow : Makes the desolatest...the blackest discontents To be pleasing ornaments. In my former days of bliss, Her divine skill taught me this, That from every thing I saw, I could some... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...; Whence she should be driven too, Were't in mortals' power to do. She doth tell me where to borrow ds, With Heav'n's artillery fraught, come rattling...Caspian, then stand front to front Hov'ring a space, t Be her fairest ornaments. In my former days of bliss Her divine skill taught me this, That from every... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1827 - 1150 pages
...my grief, She 's my minds companion still, Maugre Envy's evil will. She doth tell me where to borrow Comfort in the midst of sorrow, Makes the desolatest...grace, And the blackest discontents, To be pleasing omaments." GEORGE WIVHE*. " Pardi, man cher f" said Sir Harcourt Slingsby, taking a feather from the... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...broil on very disinterested principles. THE CONSOLATIONS OF THE MUSE. SHE doth tell me where to borrow Comfort in the midst of sorrow ; Makes the desolatest...presence be a grace, And the blackest discontents Be her fairest ornaments. In my former days of bliss, His divine skill taught me this, That from every... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...my grief' She's my mind's companion still, Maugre Envy's evil will. She doth tell me where to borrow Comfort in the midst of sorrow; Makes the desolatest...presence be a grace ; And the blackest discontents Be her fairest ornaments. In my former days of bliss, Her divine skill taught me this, That from every... | |
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