 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...so much fame in Heav'n expect thy meed. O fountain Arcthuse, and thou honor'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds, That strain I heard...Neptune's plea ; He ask'd the Waves, and ask'd the fellon Winds, What hard mishaps hath doom'd this gentle swain? And question'd every gust of rugged... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...much fame in heaven expect thy meed." O fountain Arethuse, and th'ou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds! That strain I heard...from off each beaked promontory; They knew not of his story; That not a blast was from his dungeon strayM; The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...much fame in heaven expect thy meed." O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds! That strain I heard...herald of the sea That came in Neptune's plea; He askM the waves, and ask'd the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doom'd this gentle swain } And question'd... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...expect thy meed.". O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'dwith vocal reeds ! That strain I heard was of a higher...the herald of the sea That came in Neptune's plea; 90 He ask'd the waves, and ask'd the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doom'd this gentle swain I... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...heaven expect thy meed." O fountain Arethuse, and them, honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds, That strain I heard was of a higher...Neptune's plea : He ask'd the waves, and ask'd the fellon winds, What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain ? And questioned every gust of rugged... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed. O fountain Arethusc,and thouhonor'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds, That strain I heard...mishap hath doom'd this gentle swain ? And question'd ev'ry gust of rugged winds That blows from oft each beaked promontory; They knew not of his story,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...fame in Heaven expect thy meed.' > f ; ~O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius,* crown'd with vocal reeds That strain I heard...gentle swain ? And question'd every gust of rugged winds ,. That blows from off each beaked promontory : They knew not of his story . .-And sage Hippotadesf... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...much fame in Heaven expect thy meed." O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding d creation must be destroyed. IX. The extravagance,...absolute submission due to Providence, both as to ; 90 He ask'd the waves, and ask'd the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doom'd this gentle swain... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...much fame in heaven expect thy meed." O fountain Arethuse ! and thou hoiior'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds ! That strain I...from off each beaked promontory. They knew not of his story ; And sage Hippotades ' their answer brings, That not a blast was from his dungeon stray'd... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...much fame in heaven expect thy meed." O fountain Arethuse ! and thou honor'd flood, Smooth-sliding; Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds! That strain I heard...the herald of the sea That came in Neptune's plea: He'ask'd the waves, and ask'd the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doom'd this gentle swain ? And... | |
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But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed. 
