 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 Seiten
...nothing said, But that two-handed engine ut the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green-turf suck... | |
 | 1855 - 494 Seiten
...late, For a laggard in love and a dastard in war AVas to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar." " Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowreis of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | Elijah Ridings - 1850 - 200 Seiten
...POETICAL FRIEND.) Written after reading the book of Job, and Leigh Hunt's Translations from the Greek. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian muse. MILTON. 0 ! let me live, and pass my future days, Far from the town, and all its sordid ways, In some... | |
 | 1851 - 222 Seiten
...and running waters, and consequently with those beautiful scenes which nature often presents — " In valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks," will ever render the aspen an agreeable object with those whose regard for trees is* not limited by... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1851 - 394 Seiten
...asserted ten years ago, " that the moat accomplished prince in Europe was an Adonis of fifty ! " " Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse ! " I look out of my window and see that a shower has just fallen : the fields look green after it,... | |
 | 1852 - 874 Seiten
...nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door I30 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." And these for ever, though a monarch reign, Their...webs shall draw, Entangle Justice in her net of Law, swart-star sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 350 Seiten
...Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. i-i5 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, >» Grate] Virg. Eel. iii. 26. ' solebus Strideuti miserum stipulii dispendere carmen.' Neuto«. i25... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1852 - 620 Seiten
...it Observe, in comparison, how a poet like Milton gathers flowers. The quotation is from Lycidas. ' Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 Seiten
...that two-handed engine4 at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus,6 the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ;...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star1 sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enau1ell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 Seiten
...that two-handed engine* at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus,6 the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ;...hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use 1 ' The pilot : ' Peter.—2 ' Scrannel : ' screeching.—3 ' Sed : ' old spelling for said. — 4... | |
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Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 
