 Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets...  A Manual of English Prose Literature.. - Page 200by William Minto - 1881 - 548 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1847 - 318 pages
...plucking from fair trees, from whose boughs they hang in rich and tempting clusters ; if they knew that " Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers old poets have done ; neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 342 pages
...narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never sets forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done ; neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet smelling flowers, nor whatever else may make the too much... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done ; neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done ; neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 286 pages
...narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never sets forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done ; neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet smelling flowers, nor whatever else may make the too much... | |
 | S. M. Henry Davis - 1859 - 490 pages
...inclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging within the zodiac -of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry, as divers Poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1860 - 412 pages
...enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done ; neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweetsmelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1862 - 588 pages
...enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done ; neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts but freely ranging within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry, as divers poets have done ; neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatever else may make the too-much-loved... | |
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