 | Edmund Spenser - 1596 - 738 pages
...When as mans age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare; Such oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are, As that,...being once amisse, growes daily wourse and wourse: 2 For from the golden age, that first was named, It's now at earst 1 become a stonie one; And men themselves,... | |
 | English poetry - 1788 - 538 pages
...Whenas man's age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare, Such oddes I finde twixt those and these which are, As that,...sourse, And being once amisse, growes daily wourse and II. [wourse : For from the Golden Age, that first was named, It's now at earst become a stonie one... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 610 pages
...age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare ; Such oddes I finde twhrt those, and these which are, As that, through long...wourse : for from the golden age, that first was named, It 's now at earst become a stonie one ; And men themselves, the which at first were framed Of earthly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare ; Such oddes I findetwixtthose.and these which are, As that, through long continuance of his course, Me seemes the world in runne quite out of square From the first point of his appointed sourse ; And being once amisse growes... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 308 pages
...Whenas mans age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare; Such oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are, As that,...being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse: II. For from the golden age, that first was named, It's now at earst become a stonie one; And men themselves,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1825 - 410 pages
...Whenas mans age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare; Such oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are, As that,...And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse : ii. For from the golden age, that first was named, It's now at earst become a stonie one; And men... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 828 pages
...nothing here long standeth in one stay. fit. — — through long continuance of his course, M*1 seemcs the world is runne quite out of square From the first point of his appointed sourse. Id. We are of him and in himf even as though our very flesh and bones should be made continúate with... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1831 - 1038 pages
...Wbenas mans age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossomc of faire vertue bare ; Such oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are, As that,...wourse : For from the golden age, that first was named, It 's now at earst become a stonie one ; • And men themselves, the which at first were framed Of... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 442 pages
...Whenas mans age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare ; Such oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are, As that,...that first was named, It's now at earst * become a stonie one ; And men themselves, the which at first were framed Of earthly mould, and form'd of flesh... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 446 pages
...Whenas mans age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare ; Such oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are, As that,...golden age, that first was named, It's now at earst 1 become a stonie one ; And men themselves, the which at first were framed Of earthly mould, and form'd... | |
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So oft as I with state of present time The image of the antique world compare, When as mans age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare ; Such oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are, As that, through long continuance... 
