 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 sidor
...flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, . 1 sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied,...meditate my rural minstrelsy Till Fancy had her fill ; but, ere a close, The wonted roar was up amidst the woods, And fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 sidor
...flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb £4 1 Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied,...meditate my rural minstrelsy, Till fancy had her fill ; but, ere a close, The wonted roar was up amidst the woods, And fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 sidor
...watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honey-suckle, and began, Wrapp'd in a pleasing fit of melancholy, To meditate my rural minstrelsy, Till fancy had her fill ; but, ere the close, The wonted roar was up amidst the woods, And fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 220 sidor
...chewing flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied,...meditate my rural minstrelsy, Till fancy had her fill; but, ere a close, . I The wonted roar was up amidst the woods, And fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance;... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 sidor
...chewing flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied,...meditate my rural minstrelsy, Till Fancy had her fill ; but, ere a close, The wonted roar was up amidst the woods, And fill'il the air with barbarous dissonance... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 sidor
...are shed : when first He had put on the livery of blood, She wept him dead to her, Southey. SOLITUDE. I sat me down to watch upon a "bank With ivy canopied,...meditate my rural minstrelsy, Till fancy had her fill. Milton's Comus. Then horrid silence follow'd, broke alone By the low murmurs of the restless deep,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 sidor
...watch upon a bank 550 With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honey-suckle, and began, Wrapp'd in a pleasing fit of melancholy, To meditate my rural minstrelsy, Till fancy had her fill, but ere a' close 555 The wonted roar was up amidst the woods, And fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sidor
...chewing flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savory herb Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, son of memory, great heir of fame. What need'st thou such weak witness o slanting honeysuckle, and began, Wrapt in a pleasing fit of melancholy , To meditate my rural minstrelsy,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 sidor
...Hocks 540 Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove 532. — this bottom glade,'} So Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, ed. 1596. Sweet Jattom-grasse, and... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 sidor
...O'er-canopies the glade.] " A bank O'er-canopied with lucious woodbine." Shakspeare's Mids. Night's Dream . " I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honey-suckle. Milton's Comus, 543. — WAKEFISLD. Ver. 19. How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great... | |
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Wrapt in a pleasing fit of melancholy, To meditate my rural minstrelsy, Till fancy had her fill. But ere a close The wonted roar was up amidst the woods... 
