 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...overwoody 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. Them, thus employ'd, beheld With pity heaven's high King, and to him call'd Raphael,... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1871 - 376 pages
...barks embrace, With folding tops the checkered ground-work hides." Shirley, Narcissus, St. 13. " 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 Shakespeare... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 308 pages
...embraces : or they led the vine 215 To wed her elm : she, spoused, about him I wines Her inarriigeable 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 call'd 221 Raphael,... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 80 pages
...far Their pampered boughs, and needed hands to check Fruitless embraces : or they led the vine 215 To wed her elm ; she spoused about him twines Her...her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn of all, continue ever bountiful, in giving us only what is good : and if any evil have gathered in... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...over woody reach'd too far Their pamper'd 2 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, th' adopted clusters, to adorn , , ' ' , His barren leaves. Them thus employ'd beheld 1 See Tsalm cxlviii.... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...too far Their pamper'd boughs, and needed hands to check Fruitless embraces: or they led the vine 215 To wed her elm ; she, spoused, about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with her brings 181. TJiat in quaternion run. That is, that in a fourfold mixture aud combination run a perpetual circle,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1873 - 96 pages
...elm, <fc.] The notion of the vine wedding the elm is a favourite one with poets. Thus, in Milton,— ' They led the vine To wed her elm : she, spoused, about him twines Her marriageable arms.'—PL, v. 215. So in Ovid, Met., xiv. 665,— 'Hsec quoque quae juncta vitis roquiescit in ulmo,... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 pages
...dark." So prayed they innocent, and to their thoughts Firm peace recovered soon, and wonted calm. 210 To wed her elm ; she, spoused, about him twines Her...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 220 Raphael,... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 pages
...and needed hands to check Fruitless embraces : or they led the vine To wed her elm ; 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 2i» With pity Heaven's high King, and to him call'd Raphael,... | |
 | mrs. Granville Ryder - 1874 - 108 pages
...bright dew From vineyards of the green sea gushing, And Shiraz wine that richly ran.' 5. 'The vine about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters to adorn His barren leaves.' 92 Druidical remains. \ . A tree used for tanning and dyeing. 2. A chair of state.... | |
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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. 
