 | Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 724 Seiten
...philosopher of much experience. What need a man foretell his date of grief, ЛЕС. How should he know that Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree, Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon watch with uncnchanted eye To save her blossoms and defend her fruit, &<x Landor. We now come to a place where... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 344 Seiten
...men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, 390 His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence ? But beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had need... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 Seiten
...desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books,...maple dish, Or do his grey hairs any violence ? But Ixjftnty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragou watch,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 476 Seiten
...In shirt of hair, and weeds of canvass dress'd, Girt with a bell-rope that the Pope has bless' d, 8 For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish ? — Comus. Adust with stripes told out for every crime, And sore tormented long before his time,... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1855 - 566 Seiten
...trenchers were some centuries since commonly made of maple wood ; thus we find in Milton's " Comus," — " For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books,...or maple dish, Or do his grey hairs any violence?" Delicately wrought bowls were sometimes made of this knurled wood, so thin as to transmit the light.... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 Seiten
...of desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as sate as in a senate-house; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any •violence ? But beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, hath... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 Seiten
...desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence ? But beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had need... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 Seiten
...(O worst imprisonment !) The dungeon of thyself. — TODD. And sits as safe as in a senate-bouse;1 For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, *• His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence ? But Beauty/ like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had need... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 Seiten
...itself: If you let slip time, like a negleeted rose, It withers on the stalk with languish'd head. Couna. Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree, Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon wateh with unenehanted eye, To save her blossoms and defend her fruit From the rash hand of bold ineontinenee.... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1855 - 422 Seiten
...of maple-wood ; thus we find in Milton's " Comus,"— " For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, Mia few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his grey hairs any violence ?" Delicately wrought bowls were sometimes made of this knurled wood, so thin as to transmit the light.... | |
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That musing meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish... 
