For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around And still I seem to tread on classic ground; For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung,... The Book of Italian Travel (1580-1900) - Page 33by Henry Neville Maugham - 1903 - 458 pagesFull view - About this book
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground ; For here the muse so oft her harp...strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung, Renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, And ev'ry stream in heav'nly numbers flows. How am I pleas'd... | |
| 1806 - 408 pages
...Poetic fields enccm ass me around, And still i seem to tread, on Classic ground : ยป Shrewsbury Cakes. For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung, Renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, And ev'ry stream in heav'nly numbers flows. How am I pleas'd... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...scenes and shining prospects rise ; Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground ; For here the Muse so oft her harp...strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung, Renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, And every stream in heavenly numbers flows. How am I pleas'd... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...scenes and shining prospects ri;e'; Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on re hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of th no1 a mountain rears its hcnd unsung; Renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, And ev'rv ttreain... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 458 pages
...with poetic transport I survey Th' immortal tslands, and the well.known sea. For here so oft the mute her harp has strung, That not a mountain, rears its head unsung. I beg your pardon for this sally, and will, if I can, continue the rest of my account in plain prose.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 pages
...scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still 1 seem to tread on classic ground; For here the Muse so oft her harp...strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung, Renown'd in verse each shady thicket groivs. And every stream in heavenly numbers flows. How am I pleas'd... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...scepes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground; for here the Muse so oft her harp...strung, that not a mountain rears its head unsung, renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, and every stream in heavenly numbers flows. How am I pleas'd... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground; For here the Muse so oft her harp...strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung, Renown'd in verse each shady thicket jrtm's, And every stream in heavenly numbers 0 m. How am I pleas'd... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground; for here the Muse so oft her harp...strung, that not a mountain rears its head unsung, renown'd in verse each shady thicket arrows, and every stream in heavenly numbers flows. How am I pleas'd... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...ground; for here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, that not a mountain rears its head unsung, renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, and every stream in heavenly numbers flows. How am I pleas'd to search the hills and woods for rising springs and celebrated floods ! to view the... | |
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