 Four acres was the allotted space of ground, Fenced with a green enclosure all around. Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mould : The reddening apple ripens here to gold. Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full...  Cider: A Poem in Two Books - Page 44by John Philips - 1791 - 191 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Forbes - India - 1834 - 586 pages
...confess'd the fruitful mould. The swelling mango ripens here to gold ; Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows ; With deeper red the full pomegranate...glows ; The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear ; The verdant olives flourish round the year ; The balmy spirit of the western gale Eternal breathes... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1836 - 356 pages
...confess'd the fruitful mould; The reddening apple ripens here to gold. Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate...bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year. 151 The balmy spirit of the western gale Eternal breathes on fruits, untaught... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - 252 pages
...mould ; The redd'ning apple ripens here to gold ; Here the blue fie; with luscious juice o'erflowe. With deeper red the full pomegranate glows : The branch...bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year. The balmy spirit of the western pale Eternal breathee on fruits untaught to... | |
 | Fashion - 738 pages
...translation of Homer, says, describing the garden of Alcinous : — '' Here the blnefg with luscious Juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate...bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year." But if we once enter upon the prodigal luxuriousness of the tropics, the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...confess'd the fruitful mould ; The reddening apple ripens here to gold : Here the blue fig with luscious e charity should own, Must act on motives powerful, though unknown. 1'. Some war, some plague, or fa ]>car, And verdant olives flourish round the year. The balmy spirit of the western gale Eternal breathes... | |
 | Thomas Wemyss - Bible - 1840 - 536 pages
...confessed the fruitful mould, The reddening apple ripens here to gold, Here the \t\\iefig with luscious juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate...bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year." The Apostle has a still finer enumeration, when he describes the fruits of... | |
 | THOMAS WEMYSS - 1840 - 560 pages
...confessed the fruitful mould, The reddening apple ripens here to gold, Here the blue^j with luscious juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate...bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year." The Apostle has a still finer enumeration, when he describes the fruits of... | |
 | Richard Brown (architect.) - Architecture, Domestic - 1841 - 618 pages
...confessed the fruitful mould, The reddening apple ripens here to gold ; Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate...bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year. The balmy spirit of the western gale, Eternal breathes on fruits must ought... | |
 | Homer - 1842 - 358 pages
...confess'd the fruitful mould ; The reddening apple ripens here to gold. Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate...bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year. 151 The balmy spirit of the western gale Eternal breathes on fruits, untaught... | |
 | Charles Rockwell - Europe, Southern - 1842 - 460 pages
...royal vineyard pours, And there the garden yields a waste of flowers ; Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate...bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year. The balmy spirit of the Western gale, Eternal breathes on fruits untaught... | |
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