From betwixt two aged oaks, &c. It was neither the proper season of the year, nor time of the day, to hear all the rural sounds, and see all the objects mentioned in this description ; but, by a pleasing concurrence of circumstances, we were saluted,... Watlington Hill: A Poem - Page 29by Mary Russell Mitford - 1812 - 37 pagesFull view - About this book
| Conduct of life - 1836 - 342 pages
...rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom'd high in tufted trees. Hard by, a cottajre-cliimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks," &c. It was neither the proper season of the year nor the time of the day to hear all the rural sounds and to see all the objects mentioned in this description... | |
| Author of The young man's own book - English letters - 1841 - 338 pages
...Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom 'd high in tufted trees. Hard by, a cottage -chimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks,"...&c. It was neither the proper season of the year nor the time of the day to hear all the rural sounds and to see all the objects mentioned in this description... | |
| Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 512 pages
...passage of his L' Allegro : — Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, etc. " It was neither the proper season of the year, nor time of the day, to hear all the rural sounds, and sec all the objects mentioned in this description; but, by a pleasing concurrence of circumstances,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...rivers wide j Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom'd high in tufted trees. * • • • • Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged oaks,...neither the proper season of the year, nor time of the A \y, to hear all the rural sounds and see all the objects mentioned in this description; but by a... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...rivers wide j Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom'd high in tufted trees. • • • • • Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged oaks,...neither the proper season of the year, nor time of tlio a\y, to hear all the rural sounds and see all the objects mentioned in this description ; but... | |
| James Philemon Holcombe - American letters - 1866 - 540 pages
...Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom' d high in tufted trees. * 3? * # •& Hard by, a cottage-chimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks," &c. It was neither the proper season of the year nor the time of the day to hear all the rural sounds, and to see all the objects mentioned in this description... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...battlements it sees, Bosom'd high in tufted trees. • » • • • Hard by, a cottage chimney emokes, From betwixt two aged oaks, &c. It was neither the proper season of the year, nor time of the ftiy, to hear all the rural sounds and see all the objects mentioned in this description ; but by a... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...¡n tufced trees. * » * * * • Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged oaks," Ac. life. Good hopes may be entertained of those whose minds have this hoar all the rural sounds, and see all the objects mentioned in this description ; but by a pleasing... | |
| Andrew Lang - English literature - 1907 - 584 pages
...wife lived, and where he married her. It was neither the proper season of the year nor the time of day to hear all the rural sounds and see all the objects mentioned, but by a pleasing concurrence of circumstances we were saluted on our approach to the village with... | |
| Art - 1814 - 726 pages
...brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom d high in tufted trees. » * * Hard by a cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged oaks, &c. •— It was mitlitr the proper season of the year, nor time of the day, (say» Sir W. Jones in hi» account of... | |
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