 Mansion, frowning thro' the trees, Whose hollow turret wooes the whistling breeze. That casement, arch'd with ivy's brownest shade, First to these eyes the light of heav'n convey'd. The mouldering gateway strews the grass-grown court, Once the calm scene...  Manners: A Novel - Page 130by Frances Brooke - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Rogers - 1801 - 208 pages
...First to these eyes the light of heav'n convey'd. The mouldering gateway strews the grass-grown court, Once the calm scene of many a simple sport; When nature...was new, And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew. See, thro' the fractur'd pediment reveal'd, Where moss inlays the rudely sculptur'd shield, The martin's... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1801 - 222 pages
...gateway strews the grass-grown court, Once the calm scene of many a simple sport; When nature plcas'd, for life itself was new, And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew. See, thro' the fractur'd pediment reveal' d, Where moss inlays the rudely sculptur'd shield, 10 The... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1802 - 308 pages
...First to these eyes the light of heav'n convey 'd. The mouldering gateway strews the grass-grown court, Once the calm scene of many a simple sport ; When nature pleas'd, for life itself was new, .j And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew. See> thro' the fractur'd pediment reveal'd, Where moss.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 182 pages
...to these eyes the light of heaven convey'd.... The mouldering gateway strews the grass-grown court, Once the calm scene of many a simple sport ; When...was new, And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew. See thro* the fractur'd pediment reveal'd, Where moss inlays the rudely-sculptur'd shield, The martin's... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1806 - 208 pages
...First to these eyes the light of heav'n convey'd. The mouldering gateway strews the grass-grown court. Once the calm scene of many a simple sport; When nature...was new, And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew. See, thro' the fractur'd pediment rcveal'd, Where moss inlays the rudely sculptur'd shield. The martin's... | |
 | 1807 - 350 pages
...First to these eyes the light of heav'n convey'd ; The mouldering gateway strews the grass-grown court, Once the calm scene of many a simple sport ; When nature pleas'd, fop life itself was new, And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew. See, thro' the fractur'd pediment... | |
 | Hubert (st.) - 1825 - 742 pages
...gateway shews the grass-grown court* Once the calm scene of many an infant sport, When Nature pleased ; for life itself was new, And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew. See, thro' the fractur'd pediment reveal'd, Where moss inlays, the rudely sculptur'd shield. Rogers's... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 370 pages
...recluse to the scenes of his youth, those happy scenes, and that happy time, " When nature pleas'cl, for life itself was new, " And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew." To say that he was not struck, if not exhilarated, by the busy and cheerful images which a journey... | |
 | Richard Polwhele - 1826 - 484 pages
...(P. 156.) Yon old mansion frowning thro" the trees First to these eyes the light of heaven convey'd, Once the calm scene of many a simple sport ; When...was new, And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew. (P. 10.) In the Ode to the Coly the writer recurs also to former years : Thy evening-banks, to Memory... | |
 | Richard Polwhele - 1826 - 478 pages
...(P. 156.) Yon old mansion frowning thro' the trees First to these eyes the light of heaven convey'd, Once the calm scene of many a simple sport ; When...was new, And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew. (P. 10.) In the Ode to the Coly the writer recurs also to former years : Thy evening-banks, to Memory... | |
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