| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1861 - 816 pages
...reach'd too far Their pamper'd boughs, and needed hands to check Fruitless embraces : or they led thé vine To wed her elm ; she, spoused, about him twines...marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, tbe adopted clusten, to adorn Ilîs barren leaves. Them thus employ'd beheld VVitli pity heaven's high... | |
| John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 pages
...woody reached too far Their pampered boughs, | and needed hands to check 215 Fruitless embraces :] or they led the vine To wed her elm ; she, spoused, about...brings Her dower, — the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves. Them, thus employed, beheld 1g8. Up to Heaven-gate. — Shakspere, 212. Row of fruit-trces... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1873 - 586 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." When Raphael speeds to Eden, at the bidding of the Almighty, to warn Adam and Eve... | |
| Horace - 1860 - 664 pages
...upon the poplar. Compare note, 0. ii., 15, 4. Osborne compares Milton's Paradise Lost, Book v. : " They led the vine To wed her elm ; she, spoused, about...her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn Hia barren leaves." • — 11. Bcducta. Retired; as in 0. i., 17, 17. 18. Inntilesqne. &jme editors,... | |
| John Milton - English poetry - 1860 - 574 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...marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, the adopteil clusters, to adorn His barren leaves. Them thus employed beheld With pity Heaven's liigh King,... | |
| John Milton - 1860 - 424 pages
...fruit-trees over-woody reach too far Their pamper'd boughs, and needed hands to check Fruitless embraces: or they led the vine To wed her elm; she, spoused, about him twines Her marriageable arnis, and with her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves. Them thus employed... | |
| 1873 - 618 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." When Raphael speeds to Eden, at the bidding of the Almighty, to warn Adam and Eve... | |
| John Milton - 1862 - 366 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 called Baphael,... | |
| James Baldwin Brown - Sin - 1864 - 274 pages
...over-woody reach'd too far Their pamper'd 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.'' — Paradise Lost, Book P. " Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden,... | |
| John Milton - 1864 - 584 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...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 220... | |
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