 | 1840 - 372 pages
...grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fed : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, re very Desolalion dwells, By grots and caverns shagg'd...with unblench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride, or post. That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cost... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, ter, and the walls of dung. On once a flock-bed, but...Great Villiers lies — alas, how chang'd from him. T flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...wolf, with privy paw, Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 1 30 f-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1844 - 624 pages
...lovely verses, the beautiful fictions of Paganism and Theocritus to come back: — " Return, Alphcus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ;...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whitpers use Of shades, and wanton, winds,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...already familiar with it. It is the passage which contains that exquisite description of the flowers : " Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and How 'rots of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 264 pages
...encourage, in those lovely verses, the beautiful fictions of Paganism and Theocritus to come back : — " Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 268 pages
...lovely verses, the beautiful fictions of Paganism and Theocritus to come back : — " Return, Alphéus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ;...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1849 - 290 pages
...already familiar with it. It is the passage which contains that exquisite description of the flowers : " Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flo w'rcts of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds... | |
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Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 
