 | 1788 - 510 pages
...yield , And with his nuts larded many swine, 1 10 But now the gray moss marred his rine, His barer! boughs were beaten with storms, His top was bald, and wasted with worms, His honour decay'd, his braunches sere. Hard by bis side grew a bragging Breere, 1 1 5 Which proudly thrust into... | |
 | 1825 - 364 pages
...the husband did yield, And with his nuts larded many swine. But now the grey moss marred his rine, His bared boughs were beaten with storms, His top...his branches sere. Hard by his side grew a bragging breere. Which proudly thrust into th' element And seemed to threat the firmament. It was embellished... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...the husband did yield, And with his nuts larded many swine, Bat now the gray moss marred his rine, s Where young Dione stays. With sweetest airs Entice her forth decay'd, his braunches sere. Hard by his side grew a bragging Breere, Which proudly thrust into th'... | |
 | 1825 - 368 pages
...the husband did yield, And with his nuts larded many swine. But now the grey moss marred his rine, His bared boughs were beaten with storms, His top...his branches sere. Hard by his side grew a bragging breere, Which proudly thrust into th' element And seemed to threat the firmament. It was embellished... | |
 | 1825 - 368 pages
...the husband did yield, And with his nuts larded many swine. But now the grey moss marred his rine, His bared boughs were beaten with storms, His top...his branches sere. Hard by his side grew a bragging breere, Which proudly thrust into th' element And seemed to threat the firmament. It was embellished... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...the husband did yield, And with his nuts larded many swine, But now the gray moss marred his rine, berries in sommer-time ? How falls, it then that this faded Oak, Whose body is sere, whose br deeay'd, his braunehes sere. Hard by his side grew a bragging Breere, Whieh proudly thrust into th'... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...the husband did yield, And with his nuts larded many swine. But now the gray moss marred his line ; His bared boughs were beaten with storms, His top was bald, and wasted with worms, His honor decayed, his braunches sere ; • **»** »»*•»* For it had been an antient tree, Sacred... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1825 - 408 pages
...His honour decayed, his braunches sere. Hard by his side grewe a bragging Brere, 115 Which prowdly thrust into th' element, And seemed to threat the firmament : It was embellisht with blossomes fayre, And thereto aye wonted to repayre The shepheards daughters to gather... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pages
...the husband did yield, And with his nuts larded many swine, But now the gray moss marred his rine, His bared boughs were beaten with storms, His top was bald, and wasted with worms, His honour decay'd, his braunches sere.J Hard by his side grew a bragging Breere, Which proudly thrust into th'... | |
 | 1829 - 466 pages
...husband did yield, And with his outs larded many swine, But now the grey moss marred his rine ; His bored boughs were beaten with storms, His top was bald,...with worms, His honour decayed, his branches sere. SPENSER. The COWTHORPE OAK. This gigantic and venerable king of the forest stands on the extremity... | |
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And mochel mast to the husband did yield, And with his nuts larded many swine. But now the gray moss marred his rine, His bared boughs were beaten with storms, His top was bald, and wasted with worms, His honour decayed, his branches sere. Hard by his... 
