...Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clonds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide: Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tnfted trees, Where perhaps some beanty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes. Hard by, a cottage-...

...Meadows trim with daisies pide, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide : Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed MANNERS IN IRELAND. Not as a picture of general manners, but as sketches of particular characters in...

...because it guides the sailor." Milton has the same thought in L' Allegro : " Tow'rs and battlements he sees " Bosom'd high in tufted trees, " Where perhaps some beauty lies, " The Cynosure of neighb'ring eyes." Davies calls Elizabeth, " lode-ston^Si aH hearts, and lode-star to all eyes." To...

...trim, with daisies pied ; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd hull in tufted trees, Where, perhaps, some beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis met, Are at...

...Mountains on whose barren breast The lab'ring elouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, neh aside, down, down you fall, And overturn the seolding huekster's stall ; T tuned trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighb'ring eyes. Hard by a eottage ehiumey...

...Mountains on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest, Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide. Towers and battlements...trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighb'ring eyes. Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and...

...Harefield-place. It seems to me, that Milton intended a compliment to his fair neighbour in his L 'Allegro ; " Towers and battlements it sees " Bosom'd high in tufted...Beauty lies, " The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes." The woody scenery of k Harefield, and the personal accomplishments of the Countess, are not unfavourable...

...Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide : Towers and battlements...it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps seme beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes. Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt...

...Mountains, on whose barren breast " The labouring clouds do often rest ; " Meadows trim with daisies pide, " Shallow brooks, and rivers wide : " Towers and battlements it sees " Bosom'd high in tufted trees— " Hard by, a cottage chimney smoaks, " From betwixt two aged oaks, &c. " It was neither the proper...

...Mountains, on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom'd high in tufted trees. Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks, — &c.' " It was neither the proper...