 | Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...Santo L For a GROTTO. TO me, whom in their lays the fhepherds call Actaea, daughter of the neighbouring ftream, This cave belongs. The fig-tree and the vine,...Lychnis, deck'd the green Before my threfhold, and tny melving walls With honeyfuckle cover'd. Here at noqn, Lull'd by the murmur of my rtfing fount,... | |
 | Correspondents - Epistolary fiction, English - 1775 - 314 pages
...the grotto. To me, whom in their lays, the fliepherds call Felicia, daughter of content and health, This cave belongs. — The fig-tree and the vine, Which o'er the rocky entrance downward moot, Exclude the beams of Phoebus. — Cowflips pale, Primrofe, and purple lychnis deck the green... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 388 pages
...FOR A GROTTO. ' * . TO me, whom in their lays the fhepherds call Acl;ea, daughter of the neighbouring ftream, This cave belongs. The fig-tree and the vine,...downward fhoot, • ' "Were plac'd by Glycon. He with cowffips palej Primrofe, and purple lychnis, deck'd the green Before my threfhold, and my fhelving... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 404 pages
...INSCRIPTIONS. FOR A GROTTO. TO me, whom in their lays the fhepherds call Achea, daughter of ihe neighbouring ftream, This cave belongs. The fig-tree and the vine, Which o'er the rocky entrance downward fhoot, \Vere plac'd by Glycon. He with cowflips pale, Primrofe, and purple lychnis, deck'd the green Before... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1782 - 438 pages
...I. For a GROTT 0. TO me, whom in their lays the fliepherds call Aftaea, daughter of the neighbouring ftream, This cave belongs. The fig-tree and the vine,...Primrofe, and purple Lychnis, deck'd the green Before my threflioid, and my fhelving walls With honeyfuckle cover'd. Here at noon, Lull'd by the murmur of my... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 372 pages
...[NSCRIPTIONS. L FOR A GROTTO. TO me, whom in their lays the fhepherds call Aftza, daughter of the neighbouring ftream, This cave belongs. The fig-tree and the vine, Which o'er the rocky entrance downward fhoot, Where plac'd by Glycon. He with cowflips.pala, Primrofe, and purple lychnis, deck'd the green Before... | |
 | Richard Johnson - Children's poetry - 1793 - 198 pages
...year. IN A GROTTO. TO me, whom in their lays the fliepl»erds call A£bea, daughter of the neighbouring ftream, This cave belongs. The fig-tree and the vine, Which o'er the rocky entry downward ihoot, Were plac'd by Glycon. He with cowflips pale, Primrofe, and purple hyacinth deck'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...GROTTO. TO me, -whom in fheir lays the (hepherd'ecall A<aea, daughter of the neighbouring- ftnan», This cave belongs. The fig-tree and the vine, Which o'er the rocky entrance1 downward ihoot, Wcreplic'd by Glycon. He with cowffip» pale, Primrofe, and purple lychnis,... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1807 - 254 pages
...Grotto. rpo me, whom in their lays the shepherds call •^ Actaea, daughter of tlie neighbouring stream, This cave belongs. The fig-tree and the vine, "Which o'er the rocky entrance downward shoot, Were plac'd by Glycon. He with cowslips pale, Primrose, and purple lychnis, deck'd the green... | |
 | Mark Akenside, Thomas Park - 1808 - 358 pages
...A GROTTO. To me, whom in their lays the shepherds call Actaca, daughter of the neighbouring stream, This cave belongs. The fig-tree and the vine, Which o'er the rocky entrance downward shoot, Were plac'd by Glycon. He with cowslips pale, Primrose, and purple lychnis, deck'd the green... | |
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Actaea, daughter of the neighbouring stream, . This cave belongs. The fig-tree and the vine, Which o'er the rocky entrance downward shoot, Were placed by Glycon. 
