| William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 206 pages
...teach me, Maid compos'd, 1 To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return ! For when thy folding-star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours,... | |
| William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 198 pages
...teach me, Maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return ! For when thy folding-star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours,... | |
| William Collins - 1804 - 166 pages
...the foppery of rhyme ; " Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly...suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return !" But whatever were the numbers, or the versification of this ode, the imagery and enthusiasm it contains... | |
| William Collins - English poetry - 1804 - 168 pages
...the foppery of rhyme ; " Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly...suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return !" But whatever were the numbers, or the versification of this ode, the imagery and enthusiasm it contains... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...teach me, maid compos'd ! To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As musing slow I hail Thy genial lov'd return : For when thy folding-star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours... | |
| Chaplet - 1805 - 238 pages
...some softeu'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darken'd • vale, May not unseemly wii It its stillness suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return I For when thy fuldingrstar arising shows fib paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant hours, and elves Who... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...maid compost. To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thydark'ning vale, Slay not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return ! For when thy holding-star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lump The fragrant Hours,... | |
| Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly...suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return ! For when thy folding star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant hours,... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...teach me, maid compos'd, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return For when thy folding star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warming lamp The fragrant Hours, and... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; Now teach me, maid compos'd, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly...; As musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return! For when thy holding-star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours, and... | |
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