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" And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast... "
The every-day book, or, The guide to the year - Page 653
by William Hone - 1825
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The Husband-hunter, Or "Das Schicksal.".

Denis Ignatius Moriarty - 1839 - 960 pages
...eye bath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures : Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains on...clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim, with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide, Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom'd high in tufted trees....
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures ; 70 Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains, on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, 75 Shallow brooks, and rivers wide....
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The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of ..., Volume 1

William Hone - 1839 - 874 pages
...dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures . Husset illiam brea.it, The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pide. Shallow brooks, and rivers...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks...labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide : Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees,...
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, Legends of ...

Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 pages
...Cynosure. Milton says : "Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures While the landscape round it measures. Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted...trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies The Cynosure of neighboring eyes." The reference here is both to the Pole-star as the guide of mariners, and to the...
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A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the ...

Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 pages
...landscape round it measures; Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; M6untains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide; T6wers and battlements it sees B<5som'd high in tufted trees,...
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St. Ursula's Convent, Or, The Nun of Canada: Containing Scenes from Real Life

Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart - 1991 - 292 pages
...exclaimed, "Straight mine eye has caught new pleasures, While the landscape round it measures, Russet lawn, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray: Mountains, on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest: Meadows trim with daisies pied; Shallow brooks and rivers wide." 'I...
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Romantic Parodies, 1797-1831

David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen - 1992 - 428 pages
...remark, that if Mr. John Milton proposeth to make himself merry with Russet lawns, and fallows grey. Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains on whose...labouring clouds do often rest, Meadows trim with daisies pied. Shallow brooks, and rivers wide Towers and battlements, &c. &c. &c. he will either find himself...
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Poetry, Space, Landscape: Toward a New Theory

Chris Fitter - 1995 - 358 pages
...painting : Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures . . . Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest : Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide. Towers, and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees.231...
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The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape

Susan Glickman - 2000 - 234 pages
...Russet lawns, and Fallows gray, Where the nibling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren brest The labouring clouds do often rest: Meadows trim with Daisies pide, Shallow Brooks, and Rivers wide. (11.70-6)1" Eighteenth-century verse on various subjects is inset with similar panoramic views of the...
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