 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...over-woody reached too far Their pampered boughs, and needed hands to check Fruitless embraces : or they led the vine To wed her elm ; she spoused, about...her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves. Them thus employed beheld With pity heaven's high King, and to him cslled Raphael,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...over-woody, reached too far Their pampered 3 houghs, and needed hands to check Fruitless embraces: or they led the vine To wed her elm; she, spoused, about...her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves. Them thus employed beheld With pity Heaven's high King, and to him called Raphael,... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1855 - 612 pages
...Milton, when describing the pleasant occupation of our first parents : — " They led the Vine To wed the Elm ; she, spoused, about him twines Her marriageable...her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters to adorn His barren leaves." Many very picturesque Elms are found in the neighbourhood of London, and other... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 pages
...— Hence will I undertake to sing. O ye, All-brilliant cressets of the world, who lead Line 8. "Or they led the vine To wed her elm ; she, spoused, about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with him brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves." Milton, Par, Lost, bv JShakspearo... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1855 - 430 pages
...occupation of our first parents:— To wed the Elm; she, spoused, about him twines " They led the Vine Her marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters to adorn His barren leaves." Many very picturesque Elms are found in the neighbourhood of London and other large... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...vine, supported lives: The strength he gains is from the embrace he gives." Essay on Man, iil 311. " Or they led the vine To wed her elm ; she spoused about...twines - ( Her marriageable arms ; and with her brings Him down, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves. Par. Lost, v. 215. 660-1. Like beauty,... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 470 pages
...boughs, and needed hands to check Fruitless embraces : or they led the vine Towed her eIm ; she, spous'd, about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves. Them thus employ'd beheld With pity Heaven's high King, and to him cull'd Raphael,... | |
 | William Hunter (rector of Ayr acad.) - 1857 - 130 pages
...morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl. v. I — 2 They led the vine To wed her elm ; she, spoused, about him twines Her marriageable arms. 214 — 6 The Sun, at even, sups with the Ocean. 422 — 5 To begirt the Almighty throne, Beseeching... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 626 pages
...female," because it always requires some support, which is poetically called ita husband. Milton says, — "Led the vine To wed her elm; she spoused, about him twines IXer marriageable arms." "Dion's bud o'er Cupid's flower Hath such force and blessed /www." — Act... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 pages
...over-woody reaehed too far Their pampered boughs, and needed hands to eheek Fruitless embraees : or they led the vine To wed her elm ; she spoused about...marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, the adopted elusters, to adorn His barren leaves. Them thus employed beheld With pity Heaven's high King, and to... | |
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Fruitless embraces ; or they led the vine To wed her elm ; she spoused about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves. 
