 | 1806 - 550 Seiten
...sweet segar, And fills the ears of some consenting she With puffs and vows, with smoke and constancy ! The weary statesman for repose hath fled From halls of council to his negro's shed, Where blest he woes some black Aspasia's grace, And dreams of freedom in his slave's embrace ! " In fancy now, beneath... | |
 | 1806 - 572 Seiten
...meet with some vigorous but too often unpolished lin«, which denote an alteration of sentiment: • In fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this modern Rome,* Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose Cseek once is Tiber now !f— This fam'd... | |
 | 1806 - 512 Seiten
...fhed, Where bleft he wooa fome black Afpafia's grace, And dreams of freedom in his Have's embrace 1 • In fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this modern Rome, Where ;iere tribunes rule, where dufky Davi bow, id what was Goofe<Creek once, is Tiber now ! lis fam'd... | |
 | David Bailie Warden - 1816 - 230 Seiten
...in the imagination of the poet. The following poetical description is from the pen of Moor : — f " In fancy now beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this modern Rome, Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was , Goose- Creek once, is Tiber now. . , This... | |
 | Henry Bradshaw Fearon - 1818 - 480 Seiten
...familiar : — " The lover now, beneath the western star, Sighs thro' the medium of his sweet segar ; The weary statesman* for repose hath fled From halls...gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this modern Rome, Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose Creek once is Tiber now. This fam'd metropolis,... | |
 | Henry Bradshaw Fearon - 1818 - 482 Seiten
...familiar: — " The lover now, beneath the western star, Sighs thro' the medium of his sweet segar; The weary statesman * for repose hath fled From halls...now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead tb.ee o'er this modern Rome, Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose Creek once... | |
 | Henry Bradshaw Fearon - 1818 - 482 Seiten
...familiar : — " The lover now, beneath the western star, Sighs thro' the medium of his sweet segar ; The weary statesman* for repose hath fled From halls...some black Aspasia's grace, And dreams of freedom in Ms slave's embrace. In fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this modern... | |
 | 1819 - 596 Seiten
...straggling city itself. He makes some amends, however, by subjoining the following lines from Moore: — ' In fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this modern Rome, Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose Creek once is Tiber, now. This fam'd... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 Seiten
...straggling city itself. He makes some amends, however, by subjoining the following lines from Moore : — ' In fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this modern Rome, Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose Creek once is Tiber now. This fam'cl... | |
 | Henry Bradshaw Fearon - 1819 - 720 Seiten
....'" The lover now, beneath the western star, ; '• Sighs thro' the medium of his sweet segar j ' • The weary statesman * for repose hath fled From halls of council to bis negro's shed, Where, blest, he woos some black Aspasia's grace. And dreams of freedom in his slave's... | |
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The weary statesman for repose hath fled From halls of council to his negro's shed, Where blest he woos some black Aspasia's grace. And dreams of freedom in his slave's embrace... 
