| James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...the regularity of his life and the innocency of his own mind. He describes himself in a situation " To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle...watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise." How exquisitely charming too is the picture drawn by Shakspeare's magic hand! " Hark ! hark ! the lark... | |
| Edward Jesse - 1832 - 566 pages
...' To hear the lark begin his flight, ' And singing, startle the dull night ' From his watch-tow' r in the skies, ' Till the dappled dawn doth rise ;...to come in spite of sorrow, ' And at my window bid good morrow.' MILTON'S L' Allegro. ' By Nature led, ' A thousand shifts she tries.' SOMERVILLE. ANIMALS... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...rise ; Then to come in spite of sorrow,' 45 And at my window bid good morrow, Through the sweet-briar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine : While the...with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, 50 And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before : Oft list'ning how the hounds... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, 45 And at my window bid good morrow, Through the sweet-briar , or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine: While the cock...with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, 50 And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before: Oft lift'ning how the hounds... | |
| William Hone - 1835 - 876 pages
...scenes as must rouse every lover of the country from his conch : — 651 054 Lines from Ï Allegro To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing, startle...to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow, Through the sweet-brier, or the vino, Or the twisted eglantine : Wlnle the cock, with... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 496 pages
...which he describes them, and among others, the singing of the lark before the rising of the sun : " To hear the lark begin his flight, And, singing, startle...night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dapple dawn dqth rise ; * The wild hyacinths of our English woods and hedge-rows, commonly called blue-bells.... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 482 pages
...which he describes them, and among others, the singing of the lark before the rising of the sun : " To hear the lark begin his flight, And, singing, startle...night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dapple dawn doth rise ; * The wild hyacinths of our English woods and hedge-rows, commonly called blue-bells.... | |
| Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1836 - 436 pages
...that erst was mute, Carols to the rising day Many a note, and many a lay." Faithful Shepherdess. " To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle...watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise." L'Allegro. " Don't cut your hand — to split a cumin-seed."— P. 93. The Greeks said of a miser that... | |
| John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...tower and gardens of Buffon. To his own practice of early rising Milton alludes in L' Allegro : ' ' To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle...watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise," &c. And again in II Penseroso, there is a beautiful description of the dawn, written with the graphic... | |
| Theocritus - 1836 - 450 pages
...that erst was mute, Carols to the rising day Many a note, and many a lay." Faithful Shepherdess. " To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle...watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise." L'Allegro. " Don't cut your hand — to split a cumin-seed." — P. 93. The Greeks said of a miser... | |
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