 | Christian classics, James Hamilton - 1859 - 786 pages
...manger lies; Nature in awe to Him Had d ff'd her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathise: It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour. Only with speeches t'.iir She woos the gentle 'air, To hide her guilty front with innocent snow, And on her naked shame,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature, in awe to him, Hath dofft her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize : It was no season then for her T» wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour. Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air, To hide... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...manger lies j Nature, in awe to him, Had doff'd her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize j It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour. IT. No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around, The idle spear and shield were high up hung... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 574 pages
...lies; Nature, in awe to him, Had doffed her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize: I: Vila no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour. Only with seeches fair She woos the gentle air . To hide her guilty front with innocent mow. And on her naked... | |
 | 1890 - 366 pages
...While the heaven-born Child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature in awe to him Had doffd her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize...innocent snow ; And on her naked shame, Pollute with smful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw ; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 pages
...the heaven-born child 30 All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature, in awe to him, Had doff'd her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize...front with innocent snow -, And on her naked shame, 4° Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw ; Confounded, that her Maker's... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1861 - 652 pages
...Had doft her gaudy trim, With her great Muster so to sympathize. Only with speeches fair She wooes the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent...eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities. For this, as well as for other reasons, it was happy that the Nativity was placed in December. u. Written... | |
 | John Milton - 1861 - 734 pages
...While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies : Nature, in awe to him, Had dofPd her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize:...paramour. Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air U. To hide her guilty front with innocent snow : And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blame,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...manger lies ; Nature in awe to him With her great Master so to sympathize : Had doff'd her gaudy trim, It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour. Only with speeches fair To hide her guilty front with innocent snow; She woos the g-entle air And on her naked shame, Pollute... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1862 - 396 pages
...substance, yet in its modes of utterance. The second verse in Milton's Christmas Hymn stands thus : — Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air To...eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities. Now let the requirement be this — that, without displacing the rhyme, or greatly altering the sense,... | |
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Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow, And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul... 
