 | 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
...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
...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 thy streams ;...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
...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 thy streams ;...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
...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 thy 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 - 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,... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 132 pages
...cries, Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild...use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, Ou whose fresh lap the swurt star sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That... | |
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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. 
