O'er Doccia's dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight, But ever playing in his smoothen'd bed Of polisht stone, and willing to be led Where clustering vines protect him from the sun,... Giovanni Boccaccio: A Biographical Study - Page 304by Edward Hutton - 1910 - 426 pagesFull view - About this book
| Walter Savage Landor - 1858 - 280 pages
...my household tent. Six years the Medicsean palace held My wandering Lares ; then they went afield, Where the hewn rocks of Fiesole impend O'er Doccia's...dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight,* But ever playing in his smoothen'd bed Of... | |
| John Forster - 1869 - 628 pages
...my household tent. Six years the Medicojan palace held My wandering Lares ; then they went afield, "Where the hewn rocks of Fiesole impend O'er Doccia's...dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight, But ever playing in his smoothen'd bed Of... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 585 pages
...my household tent. Six years the Medieaean palace held My wandering Lares ; then they went afield, Where the hewn rocks of Fiesole impend O'er Doccia's...dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight, But ever playing in his smoothen'd bed Of... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876 - 454 pages
...side my household tent. Six years the Medicean palace held My wandering Lares ; then they went afield, Where the hewn rocks of Fiesole impend O'er Doccia's...dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight, But ever playing in his smoothen'd bed Of... | |
| Augustus John C. Hare - 1884 - 250 pages
...side my household tent. Six years the Medicean palace held My wandering Lares ; then they went afield, Where the hewn rocks of Fiesole impend O'er Doccia's...dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight, But ever playing in his smoothen'd bed Of... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1884 - 428 pages
...side my household tent. Six years the Medicean palace held My wandering Lares ; then they went afield, Where the hewn rocks of Fiesole impend O'er Doccia's...dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight, But ever playing in his smoothen'd bed Of... | |
| 1890 - 438 pages
...side my household tent. Six years the Medicean palace held My wandering Lares ; then they went afield, Where the hewn rocks of Fiesole impend O'er Doccia's dell, and fig and olive blend." But not even amidst the flowers of Fiesole was the longed-for quiet to be found. Only when the hand... | |
| Margaret Stokes - 1892 - 348 pages
...gagias, and mimosas, in great quantities. Landor describes his farm in the following lines : — " Where the hewn rocks of Fiesole impend O'er Doccia's...dell, and fig and olive blend. There the twin streams in Affrico unite, One dimly seen, the other out of sight ; But ever playing in his smoothened bed Of... | |
| Deristhe Levinte Hoyt - 1899 - 376 pages
...side my household tent. Six years the Medicean Palace held My wandering Lares ; then they went afield, Where the hewn rocks of Fiesole impend O'er Doccia's dell, and fig and olive blend.'' " How did you come to know that ? " asked Margery, the usual poetry quoter. " I didn't have to go far... | |
| Janet Ross - 1904 - 260 pages
...belonging to Duke Salviati, whose good old wine is recorded in Redi's jocund poem " Bacco in Toscana." " Where the hewn rocks of Fiesole impend O'er Doccia's...seen, the other out of sight, But ever playing in his smoothen'd bed Of polisht stone, and willing to be led Where clustering vines protect him from the... | |
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