| William Jones - English poetry - 1777 - 242 pages
...through the grove difplay'da filver gleam. Through jafminc bowers, and violet- fcented vales, On fiiken pinions flew the wanton gales, Arabian odours on the...roes, and fragrant civets, play'd. As when at eve an Eafiern merchant roves From Hadramut to Aden's fpikenard groves, Where fome rich caravan not long before... | |
| 1806 - 738 pages
...exported. It is in the diftrift now called Hadramaut, and itl proximity is afcertained by thefe lines : " As when at eve an eaftern merchant roves, from Hadramut to Aden's fpikenard groves ! " Sir William Jones. Here we have another catalogue of articles imported and exported in a Greek... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 296 pages
...through the grove display'da silver gleam. Through jasmine bowers, and violet-scented vales, On silken pinions flew the wanton gales ; Arabian odours on the plants they left, And whisper'd to the woods their spicy theft : Beneath the shrubs that spread a trembling shade, The musky... | |
| Poetical narratives - English poetry - 1810 - 330 pages
...through the grove display'da silver gleam. Through jasmine bowers, and violet-scented vales, On silken pinions flew the wanton gales ; Arabian odours on the plants they left, And whisper'd to the woods their spicy theft : Beneath the shrubs that spread a trembling shade, The musky... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...through the grove display'da silver gleam. Through jasmine bowers, and violet scented vales, On silken pinions flew the wanton gales, — Arabian odours on the plants they left, And whisper'd to the woods their spicy theft : Beneath the shrubs, that spread a trembling shade, The musky... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...through the grove display'da silver gleam. Through jasmine bowers and violet scented vales On silken pinions flew the wanton gales, — Arabian odours on the plants they left, And whisper'd to the woods their spicy theft : Beneath the shrubs, thatspread a trembling shade, The musky... | |
| Lynda Pratt - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 320 pages
...through the grove display'da silver gleam. Through jasmine bowers, and violet-scented vales, On silken pinions flew the wanton gales, Arabian odours on the plants they left, And whisper'd to the woods their spicy theft; Beneath the shrubs, that spread a trembling shade, The musky... | |
| Timothy Morton - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 304 pages
...meets, A maze of joy, a paradise of sweets. Through jasmine bow'rs, and vi'let-scented vales, On silken pinions flew the wanton gales, Arabian odours on the plants they left, And whisper'd to the woods their spicy theft; Beneath the shrubs that spread a trembling shade The musky... | |
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