 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...Stood whispering soft by a fresh fountain side." In his Lycidas, ver. 136. likewise, he addresses the " valleys low, where the mild whispers use " Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks." See also Par. Lost, B. iv. 158, viii. 516. " The mild whisper of the refreshing breeze" he had before... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 492 pages
...and asserted ten years ago, " that the most accomplished prince in Europe was an Adonis of fifty!" " Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse !" I look out of my window and see that a shower has just fallen : the fields look green after it,... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass'd That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian .Muse....wanton winds and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swartstar sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enamel'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at the door iso Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...nothing sed: But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...the vales , and bid them hither cast Their bells and flow'rets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...i3o two-handed] ' Yet, male the ax standc next the dore.' Sir T. Smith's Psalms. Restituta. iv. 189. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and hid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild... | |
 | 1834 - 1012 pages
...and British taste would bring from his country's glades and meadows " their quaint enamelled eyes," " And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flow'rets of a thousand hues," to deck the sod that his relics have consecrated. Bat his friends and... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. ****** Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the wild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 496 pages
...bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the wild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck... | |
 | 1836 - 558 pages
...streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rcts of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild...whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooki, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enameled eyes,... | |
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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. 
