 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 ページ
...smooth tales to unfold, How her face is as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold. How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die. To the grove or the garden he strays, And pillages every sweet ; Then, suiting the wreath to his lays, He throws it at Phyllis's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 ページ
...as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold. How the nightingales labour the strain, & $ strays, And pillages every sweet ; Then suiting the wreath to his lay», He throws it at Phyllis's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 ページ
...her bosom, be sure, is as cold. How the nightingales labour the strain, Witn the notes of his channer ve fallen upon a recital go eminently painful ; but...theme of poor relationship is replete with so much m strays, And pillages every sweet ; Then suiting the wreath to his lays, He throws it at Phyllis's feet.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 ページ
...her bosom, be sure, is as cold. How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his channer wned ; Yet he was strays, And pillages every sweet ; Then suiting the wreath to his lays, He throws it at Phyllis's feet.... | |
 | William Shenstone, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 324 ページ
...as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold : How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary...accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die." 5 To the grove or the garden he strays, And pillages every sweet ; Then suiting the wreath to his lays,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 ページ
...as bright as the snow, And her bosom, bo sure, is as cold : How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her trinmphs, and die." In the fourth I find nothing better than this natural strain of Hope : " Alas !... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 ページ
...And her bosom, be sure, is as cold ; How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of this charmer to vie ; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die." In the fourth I find nothing better than this natural strain of hope : " Alas ! from the day that we... | |
 | William Harrison ainsworth - 1860 - 516 ページ
...qu'eile epandit.§ So again the shepherd in Shenstone records How the nightingales labour the strain With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary...accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die.|| The metamorphosis of Philomela has not, after all, removed her so utterly from the sphere of human... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 526 ページ
...is as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold. How the nightingales labour the strain With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary...her triumphs, and die. To the grove or the garden he strays, And pillages every sweet ; Then suiting the wreath to his lays, He throws it at Phyllis's feet.... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 552 ページ
...is as bright as the snow. And her bosom, be sure, is as cold. How the nightingales labour the strain With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary...her triumphs, and die. To the grove or the garden he strays. And pillages every sweet ; Then suiting the wreath to his lays. He throws it at Phyllis's feet.... | |
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Tis his with mock passion to glow, Tis his in smooth tales to unfold, " How her face is as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold. How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie; How they vary their accents... 
