| 1807 - 530 pages
...no light but darkness visible :" to the other, " Sweet is the breath ef morn ; her rising sweef, " With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, "...with dew; fragrant the fertile earth, " After soft shower*: and sweet the coming on " Of grateful evening mi!d ; then still night, " With this her solemn... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is Woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. VVith thec conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. 6^0 Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the Sun,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 396 pages
...themselves to the mind of our great poet, when he wrote that feeling eulogy on rural gratifications, " Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of eailiest birds," &c. The first of this month is a day which I love to honour in my parish by some little... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 348 pages
....her, than as she sees them, i.ft company With Adam, in that passage so inexpressibly charming : " Wi(h thee conversing, I forget all time ; All. seasons,...fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the lertile earth VOL. III. Q After soft showerS ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; the... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...example of a turn of words which can be found in English poetry.* But Dryden, holding it for * " With thee conversing, I forget all time, All seasons, and...His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew : fragrant the fertile earth After soft show'rs, and sweet the coming on just,... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1808 - 436 pages
...exquisite to produce, 1 shall give it at full length, for the gratification of the reader and myself. " Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With...His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and, flower, Glist'ning with dew : fragrant die fertile earth, After soft showers i and sweet the coming on Of grateful... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1808 - 844 pages
...length, for the gratification of the reader and myself. " Sweet is the breath of Morn, her risingsweet, With charm of earliest birds : pleasant the Sun, When...His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ning with dew : fragrant the fertile earth, After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise. 'With thee conversing I forget all time; AH seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet...the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the the coming on Of grateful Evening mild ; then silent Night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...perfect beauty adorn'dt " My author and disposer, what thou bidst Unargu'd I obey ; so God ordains. With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and...His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 662 pages
...God is thy law, thou mine. To know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise. AIR. " With thee conversing, I forget all time. All seasons, and...spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flow'r, Glist'ring with dew : fragrant the fertile Earth, After soft show'rs ! and sweet the coming... | |
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