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Page 77
... purple hours Confin'd her tresses in a wreath of flowers ; Within the wreath arose a radiant crown , A veil pellucid hung depending down ; Back roll'd her azure veil with serpent fold , The purfled border deck'd the floor with gold ...
... purple hours Confin'd her tresses in a wreath of flowers ; Within the wreath arose a radiant crown , A veil pellucid hung depending down ; Back roll'd her azure veil with serpent fold , The purfled border deck'd the floor with gold ...
Page 78
... purple Hours - The purple of the ancients , it is generally believed , was nearly the same as our scarlet.- The Hours are sometimes in English poetry called rosy , but I do not re- member that they are any where called purple , in ...
... purple Hours - The purple of the ancients , it is generally believed , was nearly the same as our scarlet.- The Hours are sometimes in English poetry called rosy , but I do not re- member that they are any where called purple , in ...
Page 129
... purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before , unpitied and alone . When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue , his darling child designed , To thee he gave the heavenly birth , And bade thee form her infant mind . Stern ...
... purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before , unpitied and alone . When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue , his darling child designed , To thee he gave the heavenly birth , And bade thee form her infant mind . Stern ...
Page 134
... Purple tyrants . - Purple here alludes to the dress of Kings which was usually purple ; not what we call pur- ple , but rather ( as some say ) scarlet , a colour that was expressed or pressed out of a kind of shell - fish , called the ...
... Purple tyrants . - Purple here alludes to the dress of Kings which was usually purple ; not what we call pur- ple , but rather ( as some say ) scarlet , a colour that was expressed or pressed out of a kind of shell - fish , called the ...
Page 196
... purple harvest yield ; Our foaming bowls with purer nectar crown'd ; Our feasts enhanced with music's sprightly .sound ? Why on these shores are we with joy survey'd , Admir'd as heroes , and as Gods obey'd ? Unless great acts superior ...
... purple harvest yield ; Our foaming bowls with purer nectar crown'd ; Our feasts enhanced with music's sprightly .sound ? Why on these shores are we with joy survey'd , Admir'd as heroes , and as Gods obey'd ? Unless great acts superior ...
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