 | John Dyer - 1761 - 196 pages
...fleeps : then the flirouds drop ; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fealhines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide, In old or later time, its marble floor Did ever temple boaft as this, which here... | |
 | Daniel Webb - 1762 - 140 pages
...; then the fhrouds drop ; \ The downy feather on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fea (hines like yellow gold ' ' Fus'd in the fire, or like the...fome old temple, wide. * . '* IT is evident, that the poet ftudied the effect in thefe verfes; but he has foftened his artifice by the fimplicity of his... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1762 - 536 pages
...drop } The downy feather on the cordage hung, Moves no: ; the fiat fea mines like yellow gold l'u A! in the fire, or like the marble floor Of fome old temple, wide. " It is evident that the Poet ftudied the effect in thefe Verfes J but he has foftcned his artifice by the fimplicity of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 702 pages
...zephyr ileeps i then the fhrouds drop.; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flatfea fhines like yellow gold, , Fus'd in the' fire ; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide, in old or later time, its marble floor I Eld Did ever temple boaft as this, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 410 pages
...fleeps i then the fhrouds drop.; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not; the flat fca mines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide, . In old or later time, its marble floor Did ever temple boaft as this, which here... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 362 pages
...dead calms, that oft lie on thole fmooth feas While every zephyr fleeps i then the fhrouds drop; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fea fhines like yellow gold, Fas'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor Of fome old templs wide. But where fo wide, In old or... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 368 pages
...drop -, The downy .feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fea fhines like yeliow'gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide, In old or later time, its marble floor , I Did ever temple boaft as this, which... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1787 - 482 pages
...dead calms, that oft lie on thefe fmooth feas When ev'ry zephyr fleeps; then the fhrouds diop; . The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the...or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. THE third fet of objects, which I mentioned the found of words as capable of reprefenting, confifts... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 270 pages
...fleeps: then the fhrouds drop; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fea mines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide. In old or later time, its marble floor Did Did ever temple boaft as this, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 pages
...ileeps : then the fnrouds drop ; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fea mines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide, In old or later time, its marble floor Did ever temple boaft as this, which here... | |
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The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not; the flat sea shines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor 'Of some old temple wide. 
