 | John Ferriar - Book collecting - 1812 - 424 pages
...with holding out to admiration". O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds, That strain I heard was of a higher mood; But now my oat proceeds.f * Id. ib. Several inconveniences attended the artificial noses engrafted by our author,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, 85 Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds ! That strain 1 heard was of a higher mood : But now my oat proceeds,...the herald of the sea That came in Neptune's plea ; 90 He ask'd the waves, and nsk'd the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doom'd this gentle swain... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 236 pages
...mood : Bnt now my oat proceeds, And listens to the herald of the sea That came in Neptnne's plea; 90 He ask'd the waves, and ask'd the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doom'd this gentle swain? And qnestion'd every gnst of rngged wings That blows from off each beaked promontory : They knew not of... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...fame in heaven expect thy meed. O fountain Arethusc,and thouhonor'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds, That strain I heard was...mishap hath doom'd this gentle swain ? And question'd ev'ry gust of rugged winds That blows from oft each beaked promontory; They knew not of his story,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...fame in Heaven expect thy meed." O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, n must be destroyed. IX. The extravagance, madness,...absolute submission due to Providence, both as to ; 90 He ask'd the waves, and ask'd the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doom'd this gentle swain... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...in heaven expect thy meed." O fountain Arethuse ! and thou hoiior'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds ! That strain I heard was...gentle swain? And question'd every gust of rugged wings That blows from off each beaked promontory. They knew not of his story ; And sage Hippotades... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...in heaven expect thy meed." O fountain Arethuse ! and thou honor'd flood, Smooth-sliding; Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds! That strain I heard was...the herald of the sea That came in Neptune's plea: He'ask'd the waves, and ask'd the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doom'd this gentle swain ? And... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...meed." O fountain Arethuse, and thou honoured flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds I That strain I heard was of a higher mood : But now...herald of the sea ' That came in Neptune's plea ; He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds, " What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain 7" And... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...fame in Heav'n expect thy meed. O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth sliding Mincius, , But of divine effect, he cull'd me out; The leaf...: Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain t And question'd every gust of rugged winds That blows from off each beak'd promontory ; They knew... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...fame in heav'n expect thy meed. O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds, That strain I heard was...oat proceeds, And listens to the herald of the sea 80 85 79. Nor in the glist'ring foil] Spenser, Faery Queen, b. iv. <ant. v. st. 15. As guileful goldsmith... | |
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But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed. 
