 Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft...  The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical - Page 163edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...fragrant the fertile earth After soft show'rs : and sweet the coming on Cf grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of Heav'n, her starry train: But neither breath of morn, when she ascends 650 With charm of earliest birds... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...fragrant the fertile earth After soft show'rs ; and sweet the coming on 646 Of grateful ev'ning mild; then silent Night With this her solemn bird, and this fair Moon, And these the gems of Heav'n, her starry train : But neither breath of Morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1799 - 172 pages
...fragrant the fertile earth Afcr soft show'rs; and sweet the coming on Of grateful ev'ning mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heav'n, her srarry train : But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds... | |
 | Longinus - 1800 - 238 pages
...fragrant the fertile earth After soft show'rs : and sweet the coming on « Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heav'n, her starry train. But neither breath of morn, when she ascends, With charms of earliest birds... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 712 pages
...(he fertile earth " After soft show'rs, and sweet the coming on " Of grateful evening mild : then, silent night " With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, " And these th£ gems of heaven, her starry train : " But neither breath of morn, when she ascends " With charm... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pages
...sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew : fragrant the fertile earth After...; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird ; and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven,... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...fragrant the fertile earth 645 After soft show'rs : and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild; then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of Heav'n, her starry train : But neither breath of morn, when she ascends. 650 With charm of earliest... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
..."When first on this delightful land he spreads Hi» orient beams on herb , tree , fruit and flower, Glistering with dew. Fragrant the fertile earth After...; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon And these the gems of heav'n , her... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers...; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heav'n, her... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 pages
...Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night ^With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon And these the gems of heav'n, her starry train. But, neither breath of morn, when she ascends "With charms of earliest birds... | |
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