 With merriment, and song, and timbrels clear, A troop of dames from myrtle bowers advance ; The little warriors doff the targe and spear, And loud enlivening strains provoke the dance. They meet, they dart away, they wheel askance ; To right, to left,...  Annual Register of World Events - Page 2141803Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1772 - 656 pages
...fpear, And loud enlivening ftrains provoke the dance. They meet, they dart away, they wheel aikance ; To right, to left, they thrid the flying maze ; Now...harbinger of day, Who fcaredft the vifion with thy clarion mrill, Fell chanticleer ! who oft haft reft away My fancied good, and brought fubftantial ill ! О... | |
 | English poetry - 1785 - 316 pages
...fpear, And loud enlivening flrains provoke the dance. They meet, they dart away, they wheel advance ; To right, to left, they thrid the flying maze ; Now...with vigorous fpring, then glance' Rapid along : with many colour'd rays Of tapers, gems, and gold, the echoiug foreft's blaze. XXXVI. The dream is fled.... | |
 | James Beattie - 1797 - 150 pages
...spear, And loud enlivening strains provoke the dance. They meet, they dart away, they wheel askance ; To right, to left, they thrid the flying maze ; Now bound aloft with vigorous spring, then glance Rapid along : with inany-colour'd rays Of tapers, gems, and gold, the echoing forests... | |
 | James Beattie - Wood-engraving - 1802 - 152 pages
...wheel askance ; To right, to left, they thricl the flying maze ; Now bound aloft with vigorous spring, then glance Rapid along: with many-colour'd rays Of tapers, gems, and gold, the echoing forests blaze. XXXVI, The dream is fled. Proud harbinger of day, Who scard'st the vision with thy clarion... | |
 | James Beattie - 1803 - 190 pages
...spear, And loud enlivening strains provoke the dance. They meet, they dart away, they wheel askance ; To right, to left, they thrid the flying maze ; Now bound aloft with vigorous spring, then glance Rapid along : with many-coloured rays Of tapers, gems, and gold, the echoing forests... | |
 | James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1805 - 190 pages
...wheel askance ; To right, to left, they thrid the flying maze ; Now bound aloft with vigorous spring, then glance Rapid along : with many-colour'd rays Of tapers, gems, and gold, the echoing forests blaze. 36 The dream is fled. Proud harbinger of day, Who scar'd'st the vision with thy clarion... | |
 | James Beattie - Genius - 1805 - 178 pages
...spear, And loud enlivening strains provoke the dance. They meet, they dart away, they wheel askance ; To right, to left, they thrid the flying maze; Now bound aloft with vigorous spring, then glance Rapid along : with many-coloured rays Of tapers, gems, and gold, the echoing forests... | |
 | 1806 - 184 pages
...spear, And loud enlivening strains provoke tiie dance. They meet, they dart away, they wheel askance ; To right, to left, they thrid the flying maze; Now bound aloft with vigorous spring, then glance Rapid along : with many-colour'd rays Of tapers, gems, and gold, the echoing forests... | |
 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - English literature - 1809 - 408 pages
...spear, And loud enlivening strains provoke the dance. They meet, they dart away, they wheel askance; To right, to left, they thrid the flying maze ; Now bound aloft with vigorous spring, then glance Rapid along : with many-colour' d; rays Of tapers, gems, and gold, the echoing... | |
 | James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - Poets, Scottish - 1811 - 308 pages
...spear, And loud enlivening strains provoke the dance. They meet, they dart away, they wheel askance; To right, to left, they thrid the flying maze; Now bound aloft with vigorous spring, then glance Rapid along: with many-colour'd rays Of tapers, gems, and gold, the echoing forests... | |
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