Where the great sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every... The British Prose Writers - Seite 291821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1837 - 552 Seiten
...While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale." The United States, in the immense magnitude and fertility of their domain, embracing a great variety... | |
| Book - 1837 - 232 Seiten
...content and cheerful mirth came forth ; we know that lively season When the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." The famous Glastonbury Thorn has been the theme of many a marvellous tale. On the south-west side of... | |
| Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 Seiten
...peculiar to their nation, have generally invested it with this character. Thus Milton says, — •' And every shepherd tells his tale. Under the hawthorn in the dale." And Shakspeare, in " Henry the Sixth:" — " Gives not a hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 Seiten
...mom ; While the ploughman, near at hana, Whistles o'er the furrowM land, And the milk-maid singing blythe, And the mower whets his scythe ; And every...shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale." Example 2. The Penseroso presents the following account of the objects of the evening. i " Oft on a... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 788 Seiten
...forth. We know that lively season,— 3K 4 1 When the milkmaid lingcth blylhe, Anil the mower whcU his scythe. And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale ;' and with these, ami a thousand such associations as these, we cannot but feel emotions of no ordinary... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1839 - 476 Seiten
...beholds ; — The great sun puts on his amber light, the mower whets his scythe, the milk maid sings, "And every shepherd tells his tale "Under the hawthorn in the dale. But the man of a melancholy disposition, IL PENSEROSO,. chooses the evening for his walk, as most suitable... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1839 - 316 Seiten
...morn ; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o*er the furrowM land. And the milk-maid singing blythe, And the mower whets his scythe ; And every shepherd tells his tule, Under the hawthorn in the dale." Example 2. The Penseroso presents the following account of the... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 Seiten
...morn ; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land. And the milk-maid singing blythe, And the mower whets his scythe ; And every...shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale." Example 2. The Penseroso presents the following account of the objects of the evening. " Oft on a plat... | |
| George Washington Burnap - 1841 - 296 Seiten
...dight, While the plowman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Strait mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures; Russet lawns, and... | |
| Charles Knight - 1841 - 478 Seiten
...While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrowed land ; And the milk-maid eingeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." And one of the poet's earlier compositions had afforded a strong suspicion of his idolatrous tendencies... | |
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