| Elizabeth Strutt - 1807 - 274 pages
...consolation he could receive was, that their venerable shades, " Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunti;" had hitherto been spared for the future interest of his son; and that the same motive now... | |
| Young gentleman - 1807 - 314 pages
...(hadows hrown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude ax, with heaved ftrokf, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hatlow'd haunt. There in clofe covert, hy fome hrook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...shadows brown that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt. There, in- close covert, by some brook, Hide me from day's. garish eye, While the bee, with honied thigh, That... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 490 pages
...shadows brown that sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak : Where the rude ax, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt; There in close covert, by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye ; While... | |
| John Pinkerton - 1809 - 946 pages
...fliadowj brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved (Iroke Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt." By Salvator Rofa, the well-known picture of the Prodigal Son from the Houghton collection, Democritus... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt. There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt. There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the... | |
| John Walker - 1811 - 554 pages
...And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved strok* Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt. If there are any alhisions to-the topiary art vhAtcadts, they were intended as-a compliment to his... | |
| G. Paterson - 1811 - 648 pages
...the calm hour of evening I have wandered through the wood:,, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunts. " The tast hymn of the feathered choiristers to the setting sun, and the soft murmurs of the... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...brown, that Sylvan loves', Of pine, or monumental oaU, i'jS Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow 'd haunt. There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, J40 Hide me ftom... | |
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