| Samuel Rogers - 1820 - 272 páginas
...the fancy drew. See, thro' the fractured pediment revealed, Where moss inlays the rudely-sculptured shield, The martin's old, hereditary nest. Long may the ruin spare its hallowed guest! As jars the hinge, what sullen echoes call! Oh haste, unfold the hospitable hall! That... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1820 - 160 páginas
...the fancy drew. Sec, through the fractured pediment revealed, Where moss inlays the rudely-sculptured shield, The martin's old, hereditary nest, Long may the ruin spare its hallowed guest ! As jars the hinge, what sullen echoes call ! Oh, haste, unfold the hospitable hall... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1822 - 340 páginas
...the fancy drew. See, thro' the fractured pediment revealed, Where moss inlays the rudely-sculptured shield, The martin's old, hereditary nest. Long may the ruin spare its hallowed guest ! As jars the hinge, what sullen echoes call ! Oh haste, unfold the hospitable hall... | |
| Hubert (st.) - 1825 - 742 páginas
...shews the grass-grown court* Once the calm scene of many an infant sport, When Nature pleased ; for life itself was new, And the heart promis'd what the...reveal'd, Where moss inlays, the rudely sculptur'd shield. Rogers's Pleasures of Memory. Totally thrown off his guard by the unexpected state in which he beheld... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 370 páginas
...recluse to the scenes of his youth, those happy scenes, and that happy time, " When nature pleas'cl, for life itself was new, " And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew." To say that he was not struck, if not exhilarated, by the busy and cheerful images which a journey... | |
| Richard Polwhele - 1826 - 478 páginas
...the light of heaven convey'd, Once the calm scene of many a simple sport ; When nature pleas'd ; for life itself was new, And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew. (P. 10.) In the Ode to the Coly the writer recurs also to former years : Thy evening-banks, to Memory... | |
| General reader - 1827 - 246 páginas
...strews the grass-grown court, Once the calm scene of many a simple sport ; When nature pleas'd for life itself was new, And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew. See, through the fractur'd pediment reveal'd, Where moss inlays the rudely-sculptur'd shield, The martin's... | |
| Charles Edward Herbert Orpen - 1827 - 438 páginas
...came; but he was still in that dawn and spring-time of our existence— " When nature pleas'd, for life itself was new, And the heart promis'd, what the fancy drew." Pleasures -of Memory. And, oh ! he had a bitter disappointment—alas ! he had many a long, silent,... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 páginas
...strews the grass-grown court, Once the calm scene of znany a simple sport ; When nature pleas'd, for life itself was new, And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew. See, through the fractur'd pediment reveal'd, Where moss inlays the rudely- sculptur'd shield, The martin's... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 páginas
...the fancy drew. See, thro' the fractured pediment revealed, Where moss inlays the rudely-sculptured is bishoprick. But he, triumphant spirit! all thingsdared, He poach'd hallowed guest! As jars the hinge, what sullen echoes call ! Oh haste, unfold the hospitable hall !... | |
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