| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...retirement after his marriage ; and he describes the beauties of his retreat, in that fine passage Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on...the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his sithe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...great sun begins his state, Rob'd in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight, While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the...singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his" tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasure;,... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...beauties about Mflton's , c retreat: — fK *fa Sometime walking, not unseen, ,. By hedgerow ehns, or hillocks green,— While the ploughman near at hand, ^ Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, T'- And the milk maid singeth blithe, titf And the mower whets his sithe. s HI And every shepherd tells... | |
| Virgil - Pastoral poetry, English - 1820 - 456 pages
...pleasure of hearing the labouring people sing has not been forgotten by Milton, in his L'Allegro ; While the ploughman near at hand, ' Whistles o'er...singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Servius says, that frondator is sometimes... | |
| William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...great sun begins his state, Rob'd in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight. While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the...singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures,... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...great sun Begins his state, Rob'd in flames and amber light, • The clouds in thousand liveries dight, While the ploughman, near at hand, * Whistles o'er...singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pie... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...great Sun begins his state, Rob'd in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; th prodigious, sithe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1820 - 388 pages
...struts his dames hefore : Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumhering morn ; While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milk-maid singing hlythe, And the mower whets his scythe ; And every shepherd telU his tale. Under the hawthorn... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 360 pages
...small village, situated on a pleasant hill, about three miles from Oxford, called Forest Hill, hecause it formerly lay contiguous to a forest, which has...Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blythe, And the mower whets his scythe ; And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...great sun begins his state, Robed in flames, and amber light The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the...singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures,... | |
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