| 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 - 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.... | |
| 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.... | |
| 1866 - 522 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 their accents in vain, Repine at her trinmphs, and die.' To the grove or garden he strays, And pillages every sweet ; Then, suiting the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1866 - 654 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 their accents in vain, Kepine at her triumphs, and die." In the fourth I find nothing better than this natural strain of Ilope... | |
| English poetry - 1867 - 336 ページ
...bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold : 140 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, 145 And pillages every sweet ; Then, suiting the wreath to his lays, He throws it at Phyllis's... | |
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