 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1825 - 392 pages
...numerari, et floribus, horse! The follbwing is Marvell's translation of thig Latin poem :— THE GARDEN. " How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...chill ; Congeal'd on earth ; but does, dissolving, run Into the glorys of th' almighty sun. THE GARDEN. ݴ? \a z l0" So changed he his mete and his soupere. Ful many a fat partrich had'le he in m Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils... | |
 | 1825 - 390 pages
...numerari, et floribus, horse ! 1.84 The following is Marvell's translation of this Latin poem : THE GARDEN. "How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm,...the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils... | |
 | 1825 - 392 pages
...numerari, et floribus, horse ! The following is Marvell's translation of this Latin poem:— THE GARDEN. " How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1825 - 388 pages
...et floribus, horse ! The following is Marvell's translation of this Latin poem : — THE GARDEN. " How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...; t'ongeal'd on earth ; but does, dissolving, ran Into the glorys of th' almighty sun. THE GARDEN. Do ineessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow verged shade Does... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1835 - 222 pages
...344076* A8TOR, LENOX ANO TJLDtN FOUNDAUOH8 i. - : THE OUTLAW. CHAPTER I. How vainly men themselves engage To win the palm, the oak, or bays ; And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree Whose short and narrow verged shad Does prudently their toils... | |
 | 1836 - 436 pages
...we shall here present onr readers with another poem, displaying equal ex celleuce : — THE GARDEN. How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils... | |
 | William Cartwright Newsam - 1845 - 264 pages
...outpourings of a mind schooled in the ohstreperous din of political activity ? THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN. How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd for delight ; ' the wonders of the Lord in the deep' for instruction, variety of creatures for use, m ; t While all the flow'rs, and trees, do close, To weave the garlands of repose. Fair Quiet, have I... | |
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While all flowers and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose! Fair Quiet, have I found thee here, And Innocence, thy sister dear? Mistaken long, I sought you then In busy companies of men. 
