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" 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 labouring clouds do often rest : Meadows trim with Daisies pied,... "
Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight - Page 167
by Half hours - 1847
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The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1801-11, Volume 8

English poetry - 1814 - 676 pages
...and hope and love were young; There, Grace and Genius at his side, He won his half-disdainful bride; Meadows trim, with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom'd high in tufted trees. ***** Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks, &c....
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Classical English Letter-writer, Or, Epistolary Selections: Designed to ...

English letters - 1816 - 358 pages
...the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labVing clouds do often rest j Meadows trim, with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and...battlements it sees, Bosom 'd high in tufted trees. « Hani by, a cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged oaks, 8cc. It was neither the proper season...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...grey, ': Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring cloud* do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow...and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom'd high in tufted trees. '• * * • „•• . Hard by a cottage-chimney smokes, From betwixt...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast Tly lab'ring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim, with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide. Tow'rs and battlements it sees, Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The Cynosure...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 79

England - 1856 - 838 pages
...because he paints nature, and puts a figure in his drawing on which the interest can centralise : — " Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom" d high in tufted...trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes." I hare done here with my quotations. Young men's hearts, engaged or unengaged,...
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A topographical and historical description of the parish of Tixall, by sir T ...

sir Thomas Hugh Constable (1st bart.) - 1817 - 474 pages
...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,...and rivers wide : Towers and battlements it sees, Bosomed high in tufted trees. From this spot the ride takes a western direction, and winding through...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rebt ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide. Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes. Hard...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 7

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim, with daisies pied,...and rivers wide : Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where, perhaps, some beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyss....
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The British Essayists: Guardian

James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 328 pages
...fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains, on whose barren breast Tin.: labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide. The objects themselves are cheerful ; for, besides having brooks, meadows, and flowers, we have the...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The lab'rin{t clouds do often rest, Meadows trim, with daisies pied,...brooks, and rivers wide. Towers and battlements it sees, , Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes....
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