Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view! Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm; Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable — Hesperian fables true, If true, here only — and of delicious taste. Annales - Page 267by Société Académique de Nantes et du Département de la Loire-Inférieure - 1842Full view - About this book
| Ippolito Pindemonte - 1817 - 294 pages
...bow' rs. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various views: Groves whose rich trees wept od'rous gums, and balm, Others whose fruit burnish' d with...true , If true, here only, and of delicious taste: Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flock* Grazing the tender herb , were interpos' d , Or palmy... | |
| Filippo Scolari, Giovanni Battista Andreini - 1818 - 372 pages
...view : Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums, and babn*. Others whose fruit burnish' d widi giklen rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste: Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flo/ks the teiuli.-r h-rb, vre; Un cielo in terra: p-rchè... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...of various view ; [balm, Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and Others whose fruit burnish'd t before the sight ; With us approach, retire, arise, and fall ; Nothing : Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interpos'd, Or palmy... | |
| Friedrich freiherr von Lupin - 1820 - 358 pages
...various view: GrovttS , whoso rich trees wept oJotous gumt , and balm : Others whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind, Hung amiable ; Hesperian fables true , If true , here only , and of delicipus taste ! Betwixt them lawns , or Icrel- downs, and tlock* Grazing the tender herb, were intcrpos'd... | |
| John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, Others whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste: Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock... | |
| Elizabeth Kent - 1823 - 498 pages
...of various view : Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste. PARADISE LOST, Book Fourth. Cowper places the Orange in his green-house : " The golden boast Of Portugal... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...answered by reading, as I think we ought to do, the whole passage thus, Others, whose fruit burnish'd with golden rind Hung amiable, (Hesperian fables true, If true, here only) and of delicious taste. Pearce. If true, here only', and of delicious taste: Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...various view ; [place Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm; Others, whose fruit burnished of chastity ; 1 see ye visibly, and now believe That he, the Supreme Good, t' whom all things ill Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interpos'd : Or palmy... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...of various view ; I Grovo whose rieh trees wept odorous gums and balm ; Others, whose fruit bumish'd before, So now of what thou know'st not, who desir'st delieious taste. Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and floeks Grazing the tender herb, were interpos'd... | |
| 1828 - 648 pages
...rural seat of various views ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, Others whose frnit, burnish 'd with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian...fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste : Betwixt them lawns, or level down«, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interpos'd, Or palmy... | |
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