 | William Collins, John Langhorne - 1765 - 200 pages
...numbers ftealing thro' thy darkning vale, May not unfeemly with itejllllnefs fuit ; As, mufing flow, I hail Thy genial, lov'd return ! But whatever were the numbers, or the verfification of this ode, the imagery and enthufiafm it contains could not fail of rendering it delightful.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 340 pages
...numbers, ftealing through thy darkening vale, May not unfeemly with its ftillnefs fuit, As, mufing flow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return !" But whatever were the numbers, or the verfification of th» this ode, the imagery and enthufiafm it contains could not fail of rendering... | |
 | William Collins - 1781 - 200 pages
...numbers ftealing thro' thy dark'ning vale, May not unfeemly with \tsflillnefs fuit} As, mufmg flow, I hail Thy genial, lov'd return ! But whatever were the numbers, or the verification of this ode, the imagery and enthuftafm it contains could not fail of rendering it delightful.... | |
 | 1794 - 954 pages
...numbers Healing through thy darkening1 May not unfecmly with its ftillncls fuit, [vale, As, muftng flow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return !" But whatever were the numbers, or the verfificntiun of this ode, the imagery and enthufiafm it contains could not fail of rendering it delightful.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 972 pages
...numbers Healing through thy darkening May not unfeemly with its ftillnefs fuit, [vale, As, mufing (low, I hail Thy genial lov'd return !" But whatever were the numbers, or the verfification of this ode, the imagery and enthuGafm it contains could not fail of rendering it delightful.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 pages
...numbers, ftealing through thy darkening vale, May not unfeemly with its ftillnefs fun, "As, mufing flow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return !" But whatever were the numbers, or the verfification of this ode, the imagery andenthulialm it contains could not fail of rendering it delightful.... | |
 | William Collins - 1802 - 198 pages
...teach me, Maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return ! For when thy folding-star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours,... | |
 | William Collins - 1802 - 206 pages
...teach me, Maid compos'd, 1 To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers stealing thro' thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return ! For when thy folding-star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1804 - 692 pages
...numbers ftealmg through thy dark'ning rale, May not unfeemly with \tsjlillnefs fuit ; As, mufing flow, I hail Thy genial, lov'd return !" But whatever were...or the versification of this ode, the imagery and enthufiafm it contains could not fail of rendering it delightful. No other of Mr. Collins's odes is... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 168 pages
...me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften' d strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return ! For when thy folding-star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours,... | |
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With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum: Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain,... 
