 And the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose hill.  Retrospective Review - Page 332edited by - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...'11 sit and sing, whilst this shower falls so gently upon the teeming earth, and gives yet a sweeter smell to the lovely flowers that adorn these verdant meadows. Look, under the broad beech tree, I sat down, when I was last this way a fishing, and the birds in the adjoining... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...flowers that we see nature puts forth this May-morning. Chap, or Dialogue 4th.—T/ie Angler speaks. Look, under that broad beech-tree, I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing, and the birds in the adjoining groves seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo,... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...flowers that we see nature puts forth this May-morning. Chap. Or Dialogue 4-th.—The Angler speaks. Look, under that broad beech-tree, I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing, and the birds in the adjoining groves seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo,... | |
 | England - 1823 - 782 pages
...we'll sit and sing whilst this shower falls so gently upon the teeming earth, and gives yet a sweeter smell to the lovely flowers that adorn these verdant...broad beech-tree I sat down, when I was last this way afishing, and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose... | |
 | Books - 1822 - 386 pages
...man to sympathise with the tranquil and happy scenery around him, we select the following passage : " Pise. Nay, stay a little, good scholar ; I caught...beech-tree, I sat down, when I was last this way a fishing,,and the birds in the adjoining grove seem to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose... | |
 | Scotland - 1823 - 858 pages
...we'll sit and sing whilst this shower falls so gently upon the teeming earth, and gives yet a sweeter smell to the lovely flowers that adorn these verdant...broad beech-tree I sat down, when I was last this way afishing, and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose... | |
 | England - 1823 - 772 pages
...we'll sit and sing whilst this shower falls so gently upon the teeming earth, and gives yet a sweeter smell to the lovely flowers that adorn these verdant...broad beech-tree I sat down, when I was last this way afishing, and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1824 - 512 pages
...we'll sit and sing whilst this shower falls so gently upon the teeming earth, and gives yet a sweeter smell to the lovely flowers that adorn these verdant...broad beech-tree, I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing, and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo,... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...themselves ; and shall take my leave of it with the following: « Look ! under that broad beech tree I sat down, when I was last this way a fishing. And the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree... | |
 | 1829 - 298 pages
...will sit and sing, whilst this shower falls so gently upon the teeming earth and gives yet a sweeter smell to the lovely flowers that adorn these verdant meadows. " Look under that broad beech tree, I sat down when I was last this way a fishing. And the birds in the adjoining grove seemed... | |
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