 | Theophilus Cibber, Robert Shiells - Poets, English - 1753 - 418 pages
...bright'ning [face ; 3 You You cannot bar my conftant feet to trace The woods and lawns< by living ftream at eve : Let health my nerves, and finer fibres brace,...Of fancy, reafon, virtue, nought can me be[reave. Before we quit this poem, permit us, reader, to give you two more Itanzas from it : the firft fhews... | |
 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 pages
...fheWs her bright'iiing Yoa cannot bar my conftant feet to trace The woodsand lawns, bv living ftrearri at eve '. Let health my nerves, and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great chifdretyleave ; Of fancy, . reafon, virtue,- naught can me be , '"• ]>eave. Before we quit this... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 614 pages
...Thro' which Aurora (hews her bright " ening fa*e ; " You cannot bar my conftant feet to " trace •* The woods and lawns, by living dream, " at eve ; "...my nerves and finer fibres " brace, «' And I their loys to the great children " leave : * Of fancy, rcafon, viituc, nought can " nic bereave *.'* Perhaps... | |
 | James Thomson - English literature - 1763 - 458 pages
...brightening face; LI a Tfou You cannot bar my conftant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living ftream, at eve :-. Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace,...: Of fancy, reafon, virtue, nought can me bereave. IV. Come then, my mufe, and raife a bolder fong ; Come, lig no more upon the bed of floth, Dragging... | |
 | James Thomson - 1774 - 282 pages
...of the fky, Thro* which Aurora fhews her bright'ning face ; You cannot bar my conftant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living dream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And 1 their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reafon, virtue, nought can me bereave. IV. Come... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 274 pages
...her brightening face; You cannot bar my conftant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living ftream, at eve: Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace,...: Of fancy, reafon, virtue, nought can me bereave. IV. Come then, my Mufe, and raife a bolder fong ; Come, lig no more upon the bed of floth, Dragging... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 628 pages
...trace The woods and lawns, by living ftream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brsce, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reafon, virtue, nought can me bereave. IV. Come then, my Mufe, and raife a bolder fong ; Come, lig no more upon the bed of floth, Dragging... | |
 | English poetry - 1782 - 518 pages
...brightening face ; You cannot bar ray conftant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living ftream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave j Of fancy, reafon, virtue, nought can me bereave. Cbme, then, my Mufe ! and raife a bolder ibng j... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1787 - 510 pages
...her brightening face ; You cannot bar my confbnt feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living ftream, at eve ; Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace,...their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, realon, virtue, nought can me bereave. IV. Comethen, my Mufe! and raife a bolder fong ; Come, lig no... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1788 - 326 pages
...brightening face ; You cannot bar my conftant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living ftream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace,...their toys to the great Children leave: Of fancy, reafbn, virtue, nought can me bereave. IV. Come then, my mufe, and raife a bolder fong ; Come, lig... | |
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I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream,... 
