 | John Milton - 1858 - 106 pages
...may be used, Which once of Melibceus old I learnt, The soothest shepherd that e'er piped on plains. There is a gentle nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream,Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilome she was the daughter of Loerine,42 That had the... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1859 - 472 pages
...Daffodils were scattered upon the flowing stream of the Severn, a custom to which Milton refers in Comus. There is a gentle nymph not far from hence, That with...Severn stream, Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilom, she was the daughter of Loerine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute. She, guiltless... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1859 - 452 pages
...of maiden's death " ; — and in his " Comus " tells the story with a slight variation, thus : — " There is a gentle nymph not far from hence, That with...Severn stream ; Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure : Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father, Brute. She, guiltless... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 pages
...plains. There is a gentle nymph, not far from henee, That with moist eurb sways the smooth Severn-stream, Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure. Whilome she was the daughter of Loerine, That had the seeptre from his father Brute. She, guiltless damsel, flying the mad pursuit... | |
 | 1860 - 446 pages
...is the appropriate name of rivers whose course is smooth and gentle j1 and our part of the lower 1 " There is a gentle nymph not far from hence, That with...sways the smooth Severn stream, Sabrina is her name." — Milton's Comus. " Oh, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...learnt, The soothest shepherd that e'er pip'd on plains. There is a gentle Nymph not far from hence, 824 That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream, Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the scepter from his father Brute. She, guiltless... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1861 - 546 pages
...it was called " Sabrina:" the legend which accounts for its name is thus given by Milton :— *• There is a gentle nymph not far from hence, That with...name ; a virgin pure, Whilome she was the daughter of Locrlne, That had the sceptre from his father Brute. She, guiltless damsel, Hying the mad pursuit Of... | |
 | John Milton - 1861 - 534 pages
...may be used, Which once of Meliboeus old I learnt, The soothest shepherd that e'er piped on plains. That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream, Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; "Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute. She, guiltless... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 pages
...may be used, Which once of Melibceus old I learnt, The soothest shepherd that e'er piped on plains. That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream, Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute. She, guiltless... | |
 | John Milton - 1861 - 734 pages
...hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream, Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the scepter from his father Brute. 2 She, guiltless damsel, flying the mad pursuit Of her enraged stepdame Guendolen, Commended her fair... | |
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There is a gentle Nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream : Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute. She, guiltless damsel, flying the... 
