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" What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head ; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine ; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with... "
Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places, and People - Page 324
by Mary Russell Mitford - 1853
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Retrospective Review, Volume 11

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1825 - 392 pages
...so, Only that she might laurel grow ; And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a Nymph, but for a reed. What wond'rous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnar'd with...
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The London Magazine, Volume 4

1821 - 724 pages
...come in awkwardly, I hope, in a talk of fountains and sundials. He is speaking of sweet garden scenes. What wondrous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnar'd with...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...so, Only that she might laurel grow : And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed. olorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, hogs, dens, Insnar'd with flow'rs, I fall on grass. Mean while the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1824 - 514 pages
...month, above all others, we are led to exclaim with old MARVEL: What wondrous life is this I lead ! Kipe apples drop about my head. The luscious clusters of...vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 11

Henry Southern - 1825 - 388 pages
...so, Only that she might laurel grow ; And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a Nymph, but for a reed. What wond'rous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands .themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnar'd with...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 11

Books - 1825 - 390 pages
...so, Only that she might laurel grow ; And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a Nymph, but for a reed. What wond'rous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnar'd with...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 11

Books - 1825 - 392 pages
...so, Only that she might laurel grow ; And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a Nymph, but for a reed. What wond'rous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, ), Insnar'd with...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...so, Only that she might laurel grow : And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed. Thomas Tegg luseious elusters of the vine I'pon ray mouth do erush their wine. The neetarine, the eurious peaeh,...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 6

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 828 pages
...field. tíiltan. Aabces Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In dusters. Id. Paradise Latí. The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine. Manea. There with their clasping feet together clung. And a long cluster from the laurel hung. Dry...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...in awkwardly, I hope, in a talk of fountains and sun-dials. He is speaking of sweet garden-scenes : What wondrous life in this I lead ! Ripe apples drop...Upon my mouth do crush their wine. The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with...
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