 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 478 pages
...While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrowed land ; And the milk-maid eingeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd...tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." And one of the poet's earlier compositions had afforded a strong suspicion of his idolatrous tendencies... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - Women - 1841 - 296 pages
...dight, While the plowman 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. Strait mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures; Russet lawns, and... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1841 - 474 pages
...beholds : the great sun puts on his amber light, the mower •whets his scythe, the milkmaid sings, " And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." But the man of a melancholy disposition, IL PENSEROSO, chooses the evening for his walk, as most suitable... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his sithe, ot produced beyond the fifth act. . Of the style and uniformity, Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns,... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - London (England) - 1842 - 322 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; Russet lawns and... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1842 - 516 pages
...he beholds. The great sun puts on his amber light, the mower whets his scythe, the milkmaid sings, " And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." But the man of a melancholy disposition, IL PENSEROSO, chooses the evening for his walk, as most suitable... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 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 Russet lawns, and... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe. And the mower whets his sithe, ' Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures. Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns,... | |
 | Literature - 1913 - 878 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." If I dared to be as rash as Addlson, I woqld say that this poem has for Englishmen the advantage of... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1843 - 434 pages
...While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singcth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." These lines exhibits several instances of the mode in which Milton, a great master of rhythm, sought... | |
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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... 
