| Collection - 1758 - 354 pages
...pafs among thy train; So may I thy vot'ry true, All thy flow'ry paths purfue, Pleafed ftill with thce to meet In fome friendly rural feat ; Where I gladfome...tawny hue, Diftant hills, and mountains blue ; On whofe ridge far off appears A wood (the growth of many years) Of aweful oak, or gloomy pine, Above... | |
| Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 412 pages
...me pafs among thy train ; SQ So may I thy vot'ry true, All thy flow'ry paths purfue, Pleafed ftill with thee to meet In fome friendly rural feat ; Where...tawny hue, Diftant hills, and mountains blue ; On whofe ridge far off appears A wood (the growth of many years) Of aweful oak, or gloomy pine, Above... | |
| Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1782 - 438 pages
...let me pafs among thy train; So may I, thy vot'ry true, All thy flow'ry paths purfue, Pleafed ftill with thee to meet In fome friendly rural feat; •...hedges green, Fallow grounds of tawny hue, Diftant hiils, and mountains blue; On whofe ridge far off appears A wood (the growth of many years) Of aweful... | |
| Richard Johnson - Children's poetry - 1793 - 198 pages
...LfiT me, gladfome, oft furvey Nature in her beft array, Wo»ds and lawns, and lakes between, Field of corn, and hedges green ; Fallow grounds of tawny hue, Diftant hills, and mountains blue On whole ridge far off appears A wood (the growth of many years Of aweful oak, or gloomy pine, Above the... | |
| English literature - 1796 - 616 pages
...v.-e feleft the following as an example of the delcriptivc powers of the author — 4 Pleafed fluí with thee to meet , In fome friendly rural feat ; Where I gladfome oft furvey Nature in her beit array, Woods and lawns and lakes between, Fields of corn and hedges green, Fallow grounds of tawny... | |
| George de la Poer Beresford - 1858 - 308 pages
...chirping of birds, the trickling of rivulets, or the whispering of leaves. Its situation should overlook " Woods and lawns and lakes between, Fields of corn and hedges green ; Fallow grounds of tawny hue, Distant hills, and mountains blue, On whose ridge far off appears A wood (the growth of many years)... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1796 - 612 pages
...friendly rural feat ; Where I ghdfome oft furvey Nature in her beft array, Woods and lawns and takes between. Fields of corn and hedges green, Fallow grounds,...tawny hue, ( Diftant hills, and mountains blue; On whole *idge far off appears A wood (the growth of many years) Of awful oak, or gloomy pine, Above th'... | |
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