 | Bernhard Freiherr von Tauchnitz - 1860 - 468 pages
...whispering pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gather'd fragrance fling. 2 Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader...brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd , How low, how little, are the proud, How... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1860 - 440 pages
...conversation, restrained by no fashionable conventional, and clouded by no remembered cares. They walked Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader,...browner shade ; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'ercanopied the glade. Among the members of Colonel Mansfield's family was Harriet Sisson, a sister's... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1874 - 588 pages
...until the last three lines are reached : " With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little arc the proud, How indigent the great !" The last three lines are capital; but that is because, like... | |
 | James Thomson - 1861 - 480 pages
...whisp'ring pleasure as they fly, Cool zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gather'd fragrance fling. Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader,...brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd ! How low, how little, are the proud ! How... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...whispering pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gather'd fragrance fling. Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader,...brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the Crowd, How low, how little are the Proud, How... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1861 - 320 pages
...like what we see at the Adelphi, on the occasion of a rustic f£te. Hear him sing, "At ease reclined, in rustic state, How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how Kttle are the proud, How indigent the great ! " Who would not be Strephon rather than your much' to-be-pitied... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1862 - 358 pages
...whispering pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs thro' the clear blue sky Their gathered fragance fling. Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader...water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and thint omnia." Also in the Pervigil. Vener. v. 13: " Ipsa gemmis purpurantem pingit annum fioribus."... | |
 | Golden gleanings - 1863 - 342 pages
...fly, Cool zephyis through the clear blue sky Their gather'd fragrance fling. Ode on the Spring. 83 Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader,...brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 304 pages
...whisp'ring pleasure as they fly, Cool zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gather'd fragrance fling. Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader...brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The... | |
 | 1864 - 142 pages
...whispering pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gathered fragrance fling. Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader,...brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardor of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent... | |
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Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour... 
