 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 562 pages
...Gideon's miracles was shewn, " For every tree and every herb around " With pearly dew was crown'd; " And upon all the quicken'd ground " The fruitful seed...lie, " And nothing but the Muses' fleece was dry." to my invading of your modesty with this address. I am sensible that it is in a manner forced upon... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 550 pages
...Gideon's miracles was shewn, " For every tree and every herb around " With pearly dew was crown'd; " And upon all the quicken'd ground " The fruitful seed...lie, " And nothing but the Muses' fleece was dry." to my invading of your modesty with this address I am sensible that it is in a manner forced upor you.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 294 pages
...Gideon's miracles was shown; For every tree and every herb around " With pearly dew was crown'd, And upon all the quicken'd ground The fruitful seed of heaven did brooding lie, And nothing but the Muse's fleece was dry. " It did all other threats surpass, When God to his own people said [led) (The... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English poetry - 1809 - 296 pages
...Gideon's miracles was shown } " For every tree and every herb around " With pearly dew was crown'd, " And upon all the quicken'd ground " The fruitful seed of heaven did brooding lie, " And nothing but the Muse's fleece was dry. " It did all other threats surpass, " When God to his own people said [led)... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English poetry - 1809 - 292 pages
...Gideon's miracles was shown; " For every tree and every herb around " With pearly dew was crown'd, " And upon all the quicken'd ground " The fruitful seed of heaven did brooding lie, " And nothing but the Muse's fleece was dry. " It did all other threats surpass, " When God to his own people said [led)... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...shown; " For every tree and every herb around " With pearly dew was crown'd, " And upon all the quickenM ground " The fruitful seed of heaven did brooding lie, " And nothing but the Muse's fleece was dry. " It did all other threats surpass, " When God to his own people said [led)... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 564 pages
...Gideon's miracles was shown ; For every tree and every herb around With pearly dew was crown'd, And upon all the quicken'd ground The fruitful seed of Heaven did brooding lie, And nothing hut the Muse's fleece was dry. It did all other threats surpass, When Gotl to his ow-n people said... | |
 | Anna Seward - Authors, English - 1811 - 432 pages
...indeed every person who hud interested themselves at all publicly in the memory of that phi lanthropic hero. -• « To me alone One of old Gideon's miracles...was dry." Then the public hireling critics are not my friends; and I have personal enemies in some of them, rendered such by my sincerity, and because... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 416 pages
...indeed every person \\ho had interested themselves at all publicly in the memory of that philanthropic hero. ' " To me alone One of old Gideon's miracles...was dry." Then the public hireling critics are not my friends; and I have personal enemies in some of them, rendered such by my sincerity, and because... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 418 pages
...GIDEON'S miracles was shown; For every tree, and every herb around, With pearly dew was crown'd, And upon all the quicken'd ground The fruitful seed of heaven did brooding lye, And nothing but the Muse's fleece was dry. It did all other threats surpass When God to his own... | |
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hero. To me alone One of old Gideon's miracles was shown; For upon all the quicken'd ground ‘The fruitful seed of Heaven did brooding lie, And nothing but the muses fleece was dry.” Then the public hireling critics are not 
