| English essays - 1764 - 804 pages
...paich'd meads and fultry plain, To filvan grots, and thickets deep. Upon the Thames there'i.not.a brc::fv No Zephyr with expiring breath, To animate thofe horrid trees, ' Silent and motionlefs as death. Yet there yon meditate vaft pUn>. And, ever mindful of your birth, Call rulers forth from all the clant.... | |
| John Almon - English literature - 1786 - 478 pages
...the fwain With languor drives his fainting flieep prom the parch'd meads and fultry plain, To filvcr ftreams and thickets deep. Upon the Thames there's...tories and your clans Govern the princes of the earth. Heaven kindly keeps us in the dark, And, fpight of all our fine-fpun fchemes, Laughs, when we over... | |
| John Almon - English literature - 1786 - 328 pages
...the fwain With languor drives his fainting flieep From the parch'd meads and fultry plain, To iilver ftreams and thickets deep. Upon the Thames there's...as death. There you form all your decent plans, To righteoufntfs give a new birth ; And with your tories and your clans Govern the princes of the earth,... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1794 - 574 pages
...swain With languor drives his fainting sheep From the parch'd meads and sultry plain, To silver streams and thickets deep. Upon the Thames there's not a breeze, No zephyr with expiring breath, To animate those horrid trees, Silent and motionless as death. There you form all your decent plans, To righteousness... | |
| John Hall-Stevenson - Macaronic literature - 1897 - 268 pages
...fainting sheep, From the parched meads, and sultry plain, To silver streams and thickets deep. 7 — 2 Upon the Thames there's not a breeze, No Zephyr with expiring breath, To animate those horrid trees, Silent and motionless as death. There you form all your decent plans, To righteousness... | |
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