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| William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 198 pages
...The fragrant Hours, and Elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge, And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier...pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car. Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene, Or find some ruin 'midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more... | |
| William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 206 pages
...The fragrant Hours, and Elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge, And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier...pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car. Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene, Or find some ruin 'midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more... | |
| John Wolcot - 1804 - 178 pages
...The fragrant hours, and elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge, And sheds the freshening dew ; and, lovelier...pensive pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car: Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene, Or find some ruin 'midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more... | |
| Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 176 pages
...The fragrant hours, and elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge, And sheds the freshening dew ; and, lovelier...pensive pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car: Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene, Or find some ruin 'midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more... | |
| William Collins - 1804 - 166 pages
...The fragrant hours and elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a nymph who wreaths her brows with sedge, And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier...pensive pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car." In another we behold his strong bias to melancholy: " Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene,... | |
| William Collins - English poetry - 1804 - 168 pages
...The fragrant hours and elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a nymph who wreaths her brows with sedge, And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier...pensive pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car." In another we behold his strong bias to melancholy: " Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene,... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...and lovelier still , The pensite Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car, Then lead , calm Vot'ress , where some sheety lake Cheers the lone heath or some time-hallowed pile , Or up-land fallows grey Reflect its last cool gleam, But when chill blust'ring winds or driving rain , Forbid... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph, who wreathes her brows •with sedge, And sheds the fresh'ning dew, and, lovelier still, The pensive Pleasures sweet, Prepare thy shadowy car : Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene, ' Or find some ruin 'midst its dreary dells, F Whose walls... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...slept in buds the day, And m any aKymph who wreaths her brows with sedg r. And sheds the fresh/nine dew, and, lovelier still, The pensive Pleasures sweet. Prepare thy shadowy car. Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene; Or find some ruin, 'midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more... | |
| Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...The fragrant hours, and elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge, And sheds the freshening dew ; and, lovelier...pensive pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car ; Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene, Or find some ruin 'midst its dreary dells, Whose waJls more... | |
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