 | Entertaining and instructive rambles - 1827 - 178 Seiten
...sacred by them as the mistletoe of the oak, and they believed it to be the favourite tree of the Deity. Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings...fed; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnish'd out a feast. OvID. " At the commencement of the 23 reign of the late king,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 Seiten
...hangs odes upon hawthorns, and elegies on bramble* ; all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind. Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed : Cornels and brambleberriei gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast. Drydert. Thy younglings. Cuddy,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 Seiten
...makes the one reflect more from the lateral and strawy pans than the rest. /'"ml,- on f'W, -i, ,-,.. Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed. Dryden. Til not a straw matter whether the main cause be right or wrong. L' Estrange. My new straw... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1831 - 408 Seiten
...of the Latin poets having thus noticed the food of the early race of mankind, which Ovid tells us, " Content with food, which nature freely bred On wildings...fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast." This, we trust, will justify our noticing a fruit, which the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 338 Seiten
...soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovok'd, did fruitful stores allow: Content with food, which...freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed ; 135 Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnish'd out a feast. The flowers,... | |
 | Ovid - 1833 - 330 Seiten
...Nor swords were forged ; but, void of care and crime, The soft creation slept away their time. 131 The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And...freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed ; 135 Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnish'd out a feast. The flowers... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1834 - 572 Seiten
...sound, Nor swords were forged, but, void of care and crime, The soft creation slept away their time ; The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And...fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acoms furnished out a feast. The flowers unsown, in fields and meadows reigned ; And western... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood, Mrs. Sherwood (Mary Martha) - 1834 - 566 Seiten
...creation slept away their time ; The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, dirt fruitful stores allow, Content with food which nature...fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast. The flowers unsown, in fields and meadows reigned ; And western... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1835 - 500 Seiten
...sound, Nor swords were forg'd, but, void of care and crime, The soft creation slept away their time ; The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And...fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast. The flowers unsown, in fields and meadows reigned ; And western... | |
 | Ovid - 1836 - 306 Seiten
...sound, Nor swords were forged; but, void of care and crime, " soft creation slept away their time. 131 The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And...freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed ; 135 Cornels and brambleberries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnish'd out a feast. The flowers... | |
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Nor drum was heard, nor trumpet's angry sound; Nor swords were forged ; but void of care and crime. The soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : Content with food... 
