 While on its rich ambitious head, An Eden, like his own, lies spread. I view that oak, the fancied glades among, By which as Milton lay, his evening ear, From many a cloud that dropp'd ethereal dew, Nigh spher'd in heaven, its native strains could hear...  The poetical works of William Collins, with the comm. of Langhorne. To which ... - Page 45by William Collins - 1804Full view - About this book
 | William Collins - 1859 - 246 lehte
...described with all those wild-wood appearances of which the great poet was so enthusiastically fond: " I view that oak, the fancied glades among, By which as Milton lay, his evening ear, Nigh sphered in heaven, its native strains could hear." ODE, . . WBTTTEN IS THE YEAK 1746. ODE TO MERCY.... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 574 lehte
...shades o'erhrow the vallies deep, And holy Genii guard the rock, Its glooms embrown, its springs unlock, While on its rich ambitious head An Eden, like his...view that oak the fancied glades among, By which as MILTOV lay, his evening ear, From many a cloud that dropp'd ethereal dew, Nigh sphered in Heaven, its... | |
 | Mrs. H. J. Moore - 1860 - 316 lehte
...shades o'erbrow the valleys deep, And holy genii guard the rock, Its glooms embrown, its springs unlock, While on its rich ambitious head An Eden, like his own, lies spread." SNTJGLT ensconced in its mountain cradle, lay the quiet little village of B . Nurtured in Nature's... | |
 | 1856 - 502 lehte
...in sunny vest arrayed," etc. Collins's fondness for woods is well portrayed in these lines : — " I view that oak, the fancied glades among, By which, as Milton lay, his evening ear, Nigh sphered in heaven, its native strains could hear." The Ode on the Death of Thomson is somewhere... | |
 | William Collins - 1866 - 186 lehte
...which as Milton lay, his evening ear, 64 From many a cloud that dropped ethereal dew, Nigh sphered in heaven, its native strains could hear; On which that ancient trump he reached was hung: Thither oft, his glory greeting, From Waller's myrtle shades retreating, With many... | |
 | 1867 - 556 lehte
...holy Genii guard the r»jck, Its glooms embrown, its spring« unlock, While on its rich ambitii us head, An Eden, like his own, lies spread, I view that oak, the fancied glades among ' ,Ui» evening ear, Nigh sphered in heaven, its native strains could hear ; On which that ancient... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 574 lehte
...friend of Joseph and Thomas Warton, in which were these lines : " I view that oak, the fancied gladee among, By which as Milton lay, his evening ear, From many a cloud that dropped ethereal dew, Nigh sphered in heaven, its native strains could hear ; On which that ancient... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 lehte
...p. 24, » The mule fakon. '$And holy Genii guard the rock, Its glooms embrown, its springs unlock, While on its rich ambitious head, An Eden, like his...evening ear, From many a cloud that dropp'd ethereal de^r, Nigh sphered in heaven, its native strains could hear: On which that ancient trump he reach'd... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1885 - 284 lehte
...Classical school in the eighteenth century, felt as he gazed backwards on the vanished ages of imagination. I view that oak the fancied glades among, By which,...Milton lay, his evening ear, From many a cloud that dropped ethereal dew, Nigh sphered in heaven, its native strains could hear ; On which that ancient... | |
 | 1885 - 850 lehte
...classical school in the eighteenth century, felt as he gazed backwards on the vanished ages of imagination. I view that oak the fancied glades among, By which,...Milton lay, his evening ear, From many a cloud that dropped ethereal dew, Nigh sphered in heaven, its native strains could hear; On which that ancient... | |
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