| James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...sportive vanity has deck'd 736 The plumy nations, there her gayest hues Profusely pours. But, if she bids them shine, Array'd in all the beauteous beams of day, Yet frugal still, she humbles them in song. 740 Nor envy we the gaudy robes they lent Proud Montezuma's realm, whose legions cast A boundless radiance... | |
| James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...sportive vanity has dcck'd The plumy nations, there her gayest hues Profusely pours. But, if she bids them shine, Array'd in all the beauteous beams of day , Yet frugal still, she humbles them in song. Nor envy we the gaudy rol>es they lent Troud Montezuma's realm, whose legions cast A boundless radiance... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...winding umbrage of the floods, Like vivid blossoms glowing from afar, Thick swarm the brighter birds. For Nature's hand, That with a sportive vanity has deck'd The plumy nations, there her gayest hues Profusely pours. But, if she bids them shine, Array'd in all the beauteous beams... | |
| James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...winding umbrage of the floods, Like vivid blossoms glowing from afar, Thick swarm the brighter birds. For Nature's hand, That with a sportive vanity has deck'd The plumy nations, there her gayest hues Profusely pours. But, if she bids them shine, Array'd in all the beauteous beams... | |
| James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...winding umbrage of the floods, Like vivid blossoms glowing from afar, Thick swarm the brighter-birds. For nature's hand, That with a sportive vanity has deck'd The plumy nations, there her gayest hues Profusely pours. But, if she bids them shine, Array'd in all the beauteous beams... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...winding umbrage of the floods, Like vivid blossoms glowing from afar, Thick swarm the brighter birds. For Nature's hand, That with a sportive vanity has deck'd The plumy nations, there her gayest hues Profusely pours. But, if she bids them shine, Array'd in all the beauteous beams... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
...winding umbrage of the floods, Like vivid blossoms glowing from afar, Thick-swarm the brighter birds. For Nature's hand, That with a sportive vanity has deck'd The plumy nations , there her gayest hues Profusely pours, (i) But, if she bids them shine, Array'd in all the beauteous... | |
| James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...sportive vanity has deck'd 736 The plumy nations, there her gayest hues Profusely pours. But, if she bids them shine, Array'd in all the beauteous beams of...day, Yet, frugal still, she humbles them in * song. 740 Nor envy we the gaudy robes they lent Proud Montezuma's realm, whose legions cast A boundless radiance... | |
| James Thomson, Thomas Parnell - Thomson, James, 1700-1748 - 1808 - 338 pages
...winding umbrage of the floods, liike vivid blossoms glowing from afar. Thick-swarm the brighter birds. For Nature's hand. That with a sportive vanity has deck'd The plumy nations, there her gayest hues Profusely pours. But, if she bids them shine, j'd in all the beauteous beams... | |
| John Gabriel Stedman - Guiana - 1813 - 550 pages
...-excepted, whose notes are sweet, but not varied. Of these I shall speak at a proper opportunity. " For Nature's hand, " That with a sportive vanity has deck'd " The plumy nations, there her gayest hues " Profusely pours. But if she bids them shine, " Array'd in all the beauteous... | |
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