 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 494 pages
...unity of the impression, the coinherence of the brightness, the motion, and the line of motion. P. 10. Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a...pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pi ' ,ji, hy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pages
...vol. iv. p. 410.) V. 21. This invocation is taken from Green's Grotto: see Dodsley. Col. vol. vp 159. Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent...pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, 25 With pliant arm, thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral?. What idle progeny succeed... | |
 | William Spalding - 1853 - 446 pages
...waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, Father Thames ! for...seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margin green, The paths of pleasure trace : Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 368 pages
...Disporting on thy margent green, The paths of pleasure traee ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, & With pliant arm, thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny suceeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? *i While some on earnest business... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 pages
...waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seehi to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. » Say, father Thames, for thou hast seen V. 6. " and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts bis princely brow." Thoms. Sum. 1412. W. V. 10. " The... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 200 pages
...waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe. And, redolent of joy and youth. To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames. for thou hast seen Pull many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green, The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 502 pages
...unity of the impression, the coinherence of the brightness, the motion, and the line of motion. P. 10. Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a...thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral I What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball I — GBAY.... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 pages
...waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Say, father Thames, for...delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave 'I The captive linnet which enthrall'.' What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed,... | |
 | 1854 - 816 pages
...we find a succession of the same ideas, sprightliness or health, pleasure, and cleaving the wave : " Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a...delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? " And then, to make the resemblance more complete, Duck has " herbage green " to rhyme with " stream... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1854 - 608 pages
...pleasure trace ; The altar-tomb seen near the church, beside which two figures stand, covers the gvavc Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball?"... | |
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Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall? 
