| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...bend my knee In worship of thy deity. Deign it, goddess, from my hand To receive whate'er this land o account thy raptures folly, Thou dost teach squirrel whose teeth crack them ; Deign, 0 fairest fair, to take them : For these, black-eyed Driope... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...bend my knee In worship of thy deity. Deign it, goddess, from my hand To receive whatc'er this land protest before the eternal God is true, neither am...serenest sky that ever I saw, being without all cloud, gooJ, Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Than the squirrel whose teeth... | |
| Leigh Hunt - Sicily (Italy) - 1848 - 264 pages
...light, To kiss lier sweetest." So of the dessert gathered by the Satyr for the nymph Syrinx : — " Here be grapes, whose lusty blood Is the learned poet's...crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Than the squirrel's teeth that crack them; Deign, oh, fairest fair, to take them. For these black-eyed Driope... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...bend my knee In worship of thy deity. Deign it, goddess, from my hand To receive whnte'er this land every joint and member, and mould them into an immortal....Britain.] Thus expired this great empire of the Romans squirrel whose teeth crack them ; Deign, 0 fairest fair, to take them : For these, black-eyed Driope... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...bend my knee In worship of thy deity. Deign it, goddess, from my hand To receive whate'er this land From her fertile womb doth send Of her choice fruits;...crown The head of Bacchus; nuts more brown Than the squirrel whose teeth crack 'em! Deign, oh! fairest fair, to take 'em! For these black-eyed Dryope Hath... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...bend my knee In worship of thy deity. Deign it, goddess, from my hand To receive whate'er this land From her fertile womb doth send Of her choice fruits;...crown The head of Bacchus; nuts more brown Than the squirrel whose -teeth crack them; Deign, O fairest fair, to take them: For these, black-eyed Driope... | |
| Francis Beaumont - 1851 - 720 pages
...bend my knee, In worship of thy deity. Deign it, goddess, from my hand, To receive whate'er this land From her fertile womb doth send Of her choice fruits...better nor more true. Here be grapes, whose lusty blood IB the learned poets' good, Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Than... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1851 - 282 pages
...wrought in him with passion. A SATYR PRESENTS A BASKET OP FRUIT TO THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS. BY FLETCHER. Here be grapes whose lusty blood Is the learned poet's...never crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Tnan the squirrel's teeth that crack them ; Deign, oh, fairest fair ! to take them. For these black-eyed... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...bend my knee In worship of thy deity. Deign it, goddess, from my hand To receive whate'er this land From her fertile womb doth send Of her choice fruits...crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Than the squirrel whose teeth crack 'em ; Deign, oh ! fairest fair, to take 'em ! For these black-eyed Dryope... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...hand To receive whate'er this land her fertile womb doth send her choice fruits ; and but lend lief to that the satyr tells : Fairer by the famous wells To this present day ne'er grew, •"ever better nor more true. Here be grapes, whose lusty blood •*s the learned poet's good ; "vveeter... | |
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