 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...amus'da barb'roua age ; An age that yet uncultivate and rude, Where'er the poet's fancy led, pursu'd Through pathless fields and unfrequented floods, To...fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. We view well pleas'd at distance all the sights Of arms and palfries, battles, fields, and fights,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 pages
...enchanted Woods. hit now the mystic tale, that pleas'd of yore, )an charm an understanding »ge-no more; The long-spun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. We view well-picas d at distance all the sights, Of arms ami palfries, kittles, fields, an-1 fights,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...thee he soars with new delight, And plays in more unbounded verse, and takes a nobler flight. [1*7* The long-spun allegories fulsome grow. While the dull moral lies too plain below. We view well-pleasd at distance all the sights, Of arms and palfries, battles, fields, and fights,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 pages
...Вч» now the mystic tale, that pleas'd of yore, Can charm an uudenUndhi; aje no mere; VOL. , 529 The long-spun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. We view well-ple:is d at distance all the sienta, Of arms and palfrie«, battles, fields, anJ fights,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 638 pages
...amus'da barb'rous age ; An age that yet uncultivate and rude, Where'er the poet's fancy led, pursu'd Through pathless fields and unfrequented floods, To...grow, 'While the dull moral lies too plain below. We view well pleas'd at distance all the sights Of arms and palfries, battles, fields, and fights,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 542 pages
...than the criticism, which is right or wrong, as it chances ; being echoed from the common voice. Thro' pathless fields, and unfrequented floods, To dens...fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. We view well-pleas'd at distance all the sights Of arms and palfries., battles, fields, and fights,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 532 pages
...than the criticism, which is right or wrong, as it chances ; being echoed from the common voice. Thro' pathless fields, and unfrequented floods, To dens...fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. We view well-pleas'd at distance all the sights Of arms and palfries, battles, fields, and fights,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 318 pages
...enchanted woods. But now the mystic tale, that pleas'd of yore, Can charm an understanding age no iiiore ; The long-spun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. We view well pleas'd at distance all the sights Of arms and palfries, battles, fields, and fights,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...unfrequented floods, To dens of dragons and enchanted woods. But now the mystic tale, that pleased of yore, Can charm an understanding age no more :...fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. We view well pleased at distance all the sights Of arms, and palfreys, battles, fields, and fights,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...unfrequented floods, To dens of dragons and enchanted woods. But now the mystic tale, that pleased of yore, Can charm an understanding age no more :...fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. We view well pleased at distance all the sights Of arms, and palfreys, battles, fields, and fights,... | |
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Through pathless fields, and unfrequented floods, To dens of dragons and enchanted woods. But now the mystic tale, that pleased of yore, Can charm an understanding age no more ; The long-spun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain... 
