 reclin'd in ruftic ftate) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great b ! III. Still is the toiling hand of care: The panting herds repofe : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The bufy murmur glows! ^...  A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes - Page 274edited by - 1782Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1869 - 436 pages
...Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the Crowd, How low, how little are the Proud, How indigent the Great! Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardor . Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, I Still is the toiling hand of care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled... | |
 | Country life - 1873 - 160 pages
...Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great! 74 COUNTRY LIFE. Still is the toiling hand of care; The panting herds repose : Yet hark ! how through... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1901 - 248 pages
...strain of florid fancy, the Pervigüium Veneris, to the stoic moralizings of the later stanzas : " How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great !" It may be noted, by-the-way, that for many years the last two adjectives, now so happily placed,... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - Eighteenth century - 1902 - 616 pages
...some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclin'd in rustic state), How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great! " Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches and other very reverend vegetables, that,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 394 pages
...Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great! Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 pages
...of florid fancy, the Pervigiihnu Veneris, to the stoic moralizing« of the later stanzas : How vaiu the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great ! It may be noted, by the way, that for many years the last two adjectives, now so happily placed,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1903 - 192 pages
...15 O'er-canopies the glade, With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great! 20 The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air Still is the toiling hand of Care... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1904 - 410 pages
...water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) I low vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great ! Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 542 pages
...rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think tAt ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardor of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great! Yet hark, bow through the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager... | |
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