| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...But rat'ier to tell how, if Art could tell, How from that saphire fount the crisped brooks, Roiling on orient pearl and sands of gold, With mazy error...pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed 140 Flow'rs, worthy' of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...realm And country, whereof here needs no account ; But rather to tell how, if Art could tell, 236 How from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, Rolling...pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed 240 Flow'rs, worthy' of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...whereof here needs no account ; 235 Eut rather to tell how, if Art could tell, How from that saphire fount the crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl...pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed 240 Flow'rs, worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd... | |
| Jacques Delille - French literature - 1801 - 216 pages
...to tell how (if art could tell How ) from that saphir fount the crisped brooks Rolling on oriental pearl, and sands of gold, With mazy error under pendent...nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on... | |
| William Russell - Europe - 1802 - 514 pages
...earth, with kindly thirst updrawn, " Hose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill " Water'd the garden. " From that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, *' Rolling...shades, " Ran nectar; visiting each plant, and fed " Flowers worthy of paradise; which not nice art " In beds and curious knots, but nature boon " Pour'd... | |
| Mr. Marshall (William) - Botany - 1803 - 460 pages
...of pencil, what ' landscape in these lines! • ••' from that saphire fount the crisped brooks r Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, With mazy...nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - English fiction - 1803 - 274 pages
...may add, Milton, like Ariosto, seems to have borowed from the same source, in his Eden, « The saphir fount, the crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl, and sands of gold, Ran nectar. NOTE (/') page 25. Sir Anthony Shirley relates, that it was customary in Persia to hawk... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...235 But rather to tell how, if Art could tell, How from that saphit fount the crisped brooks, Rollmg on orient pearl and sands of gold, With mazy error under pendent shades Kan nectar, visiting each plant, and fed S-lO Flow'rs, worthy' of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds... | |
| 1808 - 408 pages
...fountain, and with many a rill What colouring, what freedom of pencil, what landscape in these lines! fi-jm that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, \Vith uiazy error uudiv pendant shades, Kan nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flow'rs worthy of... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account: But rather to tell how, if art could tell, How from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, I 2 With mazy crrour under pendant shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of... | |
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