 | John Milton - 1824 - 131 pages
...two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the iread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, anil bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...streams ; return, Sieilian Muse, And eall the vales, and bid them hither east Their bells, and flow'rets swart star rarely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suek the... | |
 | John Milton - 1826
...nothing said. ' But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...two-handed engine at the door 1 30 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alphcus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ;...Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Tlieir bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...Stood whispering soft by a fresh fountain side." In his Lycidas, ver. 136. likewise, he addresses the " valleys low, where the mild whispers use " Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks." See also Par. Lost, B. iv. 158, viii. 516. " The mild whisper of the refreshing breeze" he had before... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 492 pages
...and asserted ten years ago, " that the most accomplished prince in Europe was an Adonis of fifty!" " Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse !" I look out of my window and see that a shower has just fallen : the fields look green after it,... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass'd That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian .Muse....swartstar sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enamel'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at the door iso Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...nothing sed: But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...the vales , and bid them hither cast Their bells and flow'rets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton... | |
 | Agriculture - 1866 - 546 pages
...Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, aud bid them hither cast Their bells and flowreta of ft thousand hue?. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use, Of shades,...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf seek... | |
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Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use, Of shades and wanton winds,... 
