 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, * And the milkmaid 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, Whilst the landskip round it measures... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 360 pages
...first marriage; and he describes the beauties of his retreat, in that fine passage of his L'Allegro : Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on...scythe ; And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid 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, Whilst the landscape round it measures... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...When 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, tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." Who can be insensible to the charm which the last couplet throws over the whole... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd hind, And the milkmaid 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*. Whilst the landskip round it measures... | |
 | Author of the Buxton diamonds - English poetry - 1824 - 160 pages
...green. While the ploughman near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singing blythe, 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/ Whilst the landscape round it measures... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...dight, While the plowman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, dge with her fancy grew; She hourly press'd for something new ; Ideas came hawthorn in the dale. Strait mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures;... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 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 tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath canght new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...While the Ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the Milkmaid 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, Whilst the landscape round it measures;... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, 63 And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. And ere the sunne had clymb'd the easterne hills, To guild the muttring bournes... | |
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Where the 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 furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every... 
