| Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 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 Dryope... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Country life - 1875 - 296 pages
...my hand To receive whate'er this land From her fertile womb doth send Of her choice fruits ; and bat lend Belief to that the Satyr tells: Fairer by the...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... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...bend my knee, In worship of thy deity. Deign it, goddess, from my hand To receive whate'er this land ork u 7 - poets' good, Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Than the squirrel whose... | |
| Charles Lamb - English literature - 1876 - 740 pages
...Book, I7th October, 1826. ) FLETCHER in the " Faithful Shepherdess." The satyr offers to Clorin— " Grapes whose lusty blood Is the learned poet's good,...brown Than the squirrels' teeth that crack them." What is gone with the cages with the climbing squirrel, and bells to them, which were formerly the... | |
| Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 324 pages
...him fruit; for at a feast He entertains, this coming night, His paramour, the Syrinx bright. * * * * 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 Dryope... | |
| Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 pages
...him fruit; for at a feast He entertains, this coming night, His paramour, the Syrinx bright. * * * * 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 Dryope... | |
| Charles Lamb - Poetry - 1879 - 672 pages
...Fletcher in the " Faithful Shepherdess." The satyr offers to Chain— " Grapes whose lusty blood i Is the learned poet's good, — Sweeter yet did never...brown Than the squirrels' teeth that crack them." in these self-narratives (for so they ought to be called, or rather autobiographies), but the narrator... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1879 - 454 pages
...which is rather more obfus1 Fletcher in the " Faithful Shepherdess." The satyr offers to Clorin — \ Grapes whose lusty blood Is the learned poet's good,...yet did never crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more hrown Than the squirrels' teeth that crack them. cated than your fruit of Seville or St. Michael's,... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie FROM 'THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS.' [By Fletcher.] L THE SATYR. 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, O fairest fair, to take them ! For these black-eyed Dryope... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 528 pages
...buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth ! FROM 'THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS.' [By Fletcher.] I. THE SATYR. 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, O fairest fair, to take them ! For these black-eyed Dryope... | |
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