| John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore : Or whether, as some sager sing. The frolic wind, that breathes the spring, Zephyr,...violets blue, And fresh-blown roses, wash'd in dew, FiU'd her with thee, a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Haste thee. Nymph, and bring... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...men heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ¡vy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as some sages sing) The...spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-mayingv There on beds of violets blue, And fresh blown-roses wash'd in dew, Fill'd her with thee... | |
| Andrew Steinmetz - 1847 - 390 pages
...that loves the flocks and Arcadia's shady hills. A few steps higher you saw the figure of MIRTH — " Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore,"— laughing from her niche ; and the next turn of the ascent presented the Goddess of Beauty, radiant... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...But come, thou goddess fair and free, In heaven yclep'd Euphrosync, And by men heart-casing Mirth, . . Y0 fresh blown-roses wash M in dew, Fill'd her with tliee a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair.... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...yclept Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth, With two sister-graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore, Or whether (as...once a-maying, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh blown roses washed in dew, Filled her with a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Haste... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...But come, thou goddess fair and free, In heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing Mirth, y bright 1 To Nigtd. [From • The Vision of Delight...Break, Phantasy, from thy cave of cloud, And sprea eagcs sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...BUT come, thou Goddess, fair and free, In heav'n yclep'd Euphrosyne, And of men heart-easing Mirth ; Whom lovely Venus at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore : Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.... | |
| William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...But come, thou Goddess fair and free, In Heav'n yclep'd Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces...spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a maying, There on beds of vi'lets blue, And fresh blown roses wash'd in dew, Fill'd her with thee... | |
| Edward Copleston, William James Copleston - 1851 - 438 pages
...he seems, however, himself inclined to the latter of the two, we will even suppose it so to be: — Or whether (as some sages sing) The frolic wind that...spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a Maying ; There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wash'd in dew, &c. Some dull people... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...But come, thou goddess fair and free, In heaven yclept Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth ; Whom lovely Venus, at a birth With two sister Graces...To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore : Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once... | |
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