O THOU by Nature taught To breathe her genuine thought, In numbers warmly pure, and sweetly strong : Who first, on mountains wild, In Fancy, loveliest child, Thy babe or Pleasure's, nurs'd the pow'rs of song ! Thou who with hermit heart Disdain'st the... The Poetical Works of William Collins - Pagina 35de William Collins - 1804 - 144 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pagini
...shed ; Helov'd, till life can charm no more ; And mourn'd, till Pity's self be dead. TO SIMPLICITY. O THOU, by Nature taught To breathe her genuine thought,...numbers warmly pure, and sweetly strong : Who first ou mountains wild, In Fancy, loveliest child, Thy babe, and Pleasure's, nursed the powers of song !... | |
| 1839 - 876 pagini
...conception of impressions immediately past. Who but Collins would have written the ODE TO SIMPLICITY ? " O thou, by Nature taught, To breathe her genuine thought,...mountains wild, In Fancy, loveliest child, Thy babe and Pleasure's, nurs'd the powers of songl " Thou, who with hermit heart, Disdain's! the wealth of... | |
| 1839 - 894 pagini
...monntains w8d, In Fancy, loveliest child, Thy babe and Pleasure's, nurs'd the powers of song 1 " Tin in. who with hermit heart, Disdain'st the wealth of art, And gauds, and pageant weed*, and trailing pall ; But com'tt a decent maid, In attic robe arrayed, O chaste, unboastful nymph,... | |
| William Collins - 1844 - 324 pagini
...dwell with the*' TO SIMPLICITY. O THOU, hy Nature taught To hreathe her genuine thought, In numhers warmly pure, and sweetly strong : Who first on mountains wild, In Fancy, loveliest child, Thy hahe, and Pleasure's, nursed the powers of song ! Thou, who with hermit heart Disdain'st the wealth... | |
| William Collins - 1844 - 328 pagini
...O Fear, * HI dwell with the* . O TBOO, hy Nature taught To hreathe her genuine thought, In numhers warmly pure, and sweetly strong : Who first on mountains wild, In Fancy, loTeliest child, Thy hahe, and Pleasure's, nursed the powers of so Thou, who with hermit heart Disdain'st... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pagini
...throws him on the ridgy tteep, Of some loose, hanging rock to sleep. He tells us that simplicity is by Nature taught To breathe her genuine thought, In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong. Here we have a perfect definition in common but adequate words. And the idea is carried out most pleasingly... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pagini
...throws him on the ridgy sirup, Of some loose, hanging rock to sleep. He tells us that simplicity is by Nature taught To breathe her genuine thought, In numbers warmly pure and sweetly gtrong. Here we have a perfect definition in common but adequate words. And the idea is carried out... | |
| William Collins - 1848 - 158 pagini
...feel : His cypress wreath my meed decree And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee ! I ODE TO SIMPLICITY. O THOU, by Nature taught To breathe her genuine thought,...loveliest child, Thy babe, or Pleasure's, nurs'd the power of song ! Thou, who, with hermit heart, Disdain'st the wealth of art, And gauds, and pageant... | |
| Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851 - 300 pagini
...dreamily through the sky, But their forms I cannot see. (LONGFELLOW.) EXERCISE CXIX. ODE TO SIMPLICITY. O thou, by Nature taught To breathe her genuine thought,...gauds, and pageant weeds, and trailing pall ; But comest a decent maid, In attic robe array 'd, 0 chaste, unboastful nymph, to thee I call ! By all the... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pagini
...to feel : His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee ! TO SIMPLICITY. O thou, by Nature taught To breathe her genuine thought...In Fancy, loveliest child, Thy babe, or Pleasure's, nursed the powers of song ! Thou, who with hermit heart, Disdain'st the wealth of art, And gauds, and... | |
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