| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...God ordains: God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons and their change, all please alikeSweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet , With charm of earliest hirds ; pleasant the sun,... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1807 - 498 pages
...a consummation Devoutly to be rvish'd. To die ; to sleep ; To sletp ? perchance to dream ! MILTON. With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons,...sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower,... | |
| 1807 - 530 pages
...Sweet is the breath ef morn ; her rising sweef, " With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, " When first on this delightful land he spreads " His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and • flower, " Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth, " After soft shower*: and sweet the... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is Woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. VVith thec conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. 6^0 Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the Sun,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 396 pages
...themselves to the mind of our great poet, when he wrote that feeling eulogy on rural gratifications, " Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of eailiest birds," &c. The first of this month is a day which I love to honour in my parish by some little... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pages
...beautiful example of a turn of words which can be found in English poetry.* But Dryden, holding it for * " With thee conversing, I forget all time, All seasons,...sweet, With charm of earliest birds: pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 348 pages
....her, than as she sees them, i.ft company With Adam, in that passage so inexpressibly charming : " Wi(h thee conversing, I forget all time ; All. seasons,...rising sweet With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower,... | |
| 1808 - 436 pages
...exquisite to produce, 1 shall give it at full length, for the gratification of the reader and myself. " Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds : pleasant the Sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and, flower,... | |
| 1808 - 844 pages
...myself. " Sweet is the breath of Morn, her risingsweet, With charm of earliest birds : pleasant the Sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ning with dew : fragrant the fertile earth, After soft showers ; and sweet the coming... | |
| 1810 - 482 pages
...ordaius; God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise, With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons...rising sweet. With charm of earliest birds; pleasant thesun, When first on this delightful land he spread! His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower,... | |
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