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" On foreign mountains may the Sun refine The grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil : We envy not the warmer clime, that lies... "
Poetry for children, selected by L. Aikin - Page 126
by Poetry - 1804
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Selections from the Writings of Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 pages
...soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With Citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat Olive swell with floods of oil : We envy not the warmer clime, that lies 135 In ten degrees of more indulgent skies, Nor at the coarseness of our heaven repine, Tho' o'er our...
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Selections from the Works of Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 pages
...soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil : We envy not the warmer clime, that lies 135 In ten degrees of more indulgent skies, Nor at the coarseness of our heaven repine. Though o'er...
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English Poetry (1170-1892)

John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 pages
...soft juice, and mellow it to wine;With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil: We envy not the warmer clime, that lies In ten degrees of more indulgent skies, або Nor at the coarseness of our heaven repine, Thouglyo'er our heads «the f ro*m Pleiads...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison, Volume 1

Joseph Addison - 1914 - 540 pages
...Mellow it to Wine, With Citron Groves adorn the distant soil, 1 5 o And the fat Olive swell with flouds of Oil ; We Envy not the warmer clime that lies In Ten Degrees of more Indulgent skies, Nor at the coarseness of our Heavn repine, Tho' the cold Plej'ads in our Zenith shine. 155 Tis...
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English Travellers of the Renaissance

Clare Macllelen Howard - 1914 - 290 pages
...Paris be the theme of Gallia's Muse Where Slav'ry treads the Streets in wooden shoes," (Gay, Trivia.) " We envy not the warmer clime that lies In ten degrees of more indulgent skies . . . 'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's Isle And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...soft Juice, and mellow it to Wine, With Citron Groves adorn a distant Soil, And the fat Olive swell with floods of Oil : We envy not the warmer Clime that lies In ten Degrees of more indulgent Skies, Nor at the Courseness of our Heav'n repine, Tho' o're our Heads the frozen Pleiads shine : 'Tis...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...thousand passions strive, When Rome's exalted beauties I descry Magnificent in piles of ruin lie. 1 speed, And hid his head for shame, On the University Carrier (Who Sickn' skies, Nor at the coarseness of our heaven repine. Though o'er our heads the frozen Pleiads shine:...
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The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Italies of British Travellers : an Annotated ...

Manfred Pfister - 1996 - 578 pages
...repines: Starves, in the midst of nature's bounty curst, And in the loaden vineyard dies for thirst. [...] We envy not the warmer clime, that lies In ten degrees of more indulgent skies, Nor at the coarseness of our heaven repine, Though o'er our heads the frozen Pleiads shine:...
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Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century

Suvir Kaul - 2000 - 358 pages
...soft juice, and mellow it to wine. With citron groves adorn a distant soil. And the fat olive swell with floods of oil: We envy not the warmer clime that lies In ten degrees of more indulgent skies. Nor at the coarseness of our heav'n repine, Though o'er our heads the frozen Pleiads shine:...
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Patriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Dustin Griffin - 2005 - 332 pages
..."Oppression" and "Tyranny" in Italy's "golden groves," and assured his addressee, Lord Halifax, that Britons "envy not the warmer clime that lies / In ten degrees of more indulgent skies": 'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains...
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