 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...peculiar to their nation, have generally invested it with this character. Thus Milton says, — •' And every shepherd tells his tale. Under the hawthorn in the dale." And Shakspeare, in " Henry the Sixth:" — " Gives not a hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milk-maid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scithe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns,... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 pages
...Whistle» o'er the furrow 'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his sithe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 pages
...horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering mom ; While the ploughman, near at hana, Whistles o'er the furrowM land, And the milk-maid singing blythe, And the mower...the following account of the objects of the evening. i " Oft on a plat of rising ground, , I hear the far-off curfew sound Overcome wide-watered shore,... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...34 morn] Habington's Castora, p. 8, ed. 1640. ' rouse the morne, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, 65 And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures ; 70 Russet lawns,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 788 pages
...forth. We know that lively season,— 3K 4 1 When the milkmaid lingcth blylhe, Anil the mower whcU his scythe. And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale ;' and with these, ami a thousand such associations as these, we cannot but feel emotions of no ordinary... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1839 - 316 pages
...And the milk-maid singing blythe, And the mower whets his scythe ; And every shepherd tells his tule, Under the hawthorn in the dale." Example 2. The Penseroso...evening. " Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-offcurfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar, Or, if the air will... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...rouse the morne, With the shrill rnusicke of the horne.' Warton. And the milkmaid singeth blithe, 65 And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures ; 70 Russet lawns,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1839 - 476 pages
...beholds ; — The great sun puts on his amber light, the mower whets his scythe, the milk maid sings, "And every shepherd tells his tale "Under the hawthorn in the dale. But the man of a melancholy disposition, IL PENSEROSO,. chooses the evening for his walk, as most suitable... | |
 | William Hone - 1839 - 874 pages
...hand. Whistles o'er the furrovt'd land, And the milkmaid singelh blithe, And the mower whets his sithe. And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures . Husset lawns,... | |
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Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every... 
