Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft... The Greek Pastoral Poets, Theocritus, Bion and Moschus. Done Into English by ... - Page 354by Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1836 - 419 pagesFull view - About this book
| Savary (M., Claude Etienne) - 1834 - 598 pages
...much taste and judgment has introduced into Eve's rapturous description of external nature : — " Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With...birds : pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower Glistening with dew." many flowers,... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...forget all time; All seasons and their change, all please alike. 64.0 Sweet is the breath of niorn, her rising sweet, With char,m of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, G list"ring with dew; fragrant... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...praise. With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. 640 Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With...; pleasant the Sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flow'r, Glist'ring with dew ; fragrant... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1799 - 172 pages
...saved by Egbert ; and they love one another their whole lives long. CHAP. CANARY-BIRD. 139 CHAP. XVII. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With...; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads, His orient beams, on herb, tree fruit, and flower Glist'ring with cieiv ; fragrant... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 712 pages
...: had recourse to his master, Spencer, the author of that immortal poem called the FAIRY QUEEN ; " Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, " With...pleasant the sun^ " When first on this delightful land he spreads " His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, " Glist'ring with dew : fragrant... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...: had recourse to his master, Spencer, the author of that immortal poem called the FAIRY QUEEN ; " Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, " With...pleasant the sun, " When first on this delightful land he spreads " His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, " Glist'ring with dew : fragrant... | |
| Longinus - 1800 - 238 pages
...of disorder in the mind. DR. PEARCE. There is a fine Hyperbaton in the vth Book of Paradise Lost : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With...: pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flow'r, Glist'ring with dew : fragrant... | |
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pages
...Oreo. Eve. With thee conversing, I forget all time, All seasons, and their change ; all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With...; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew : fragrant... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...praise. With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. 640 Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, •...; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew ; fragrant... | |
| 1802 - 442 pages
...sense of nature's inexhaustible beauties. I never repeated with more pleasure the beautiful passage of Milton — Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet With charm of earliest hirds, &c. As we were wandering on the shore, amusing ourselves with the various forms and colours... | |
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