 On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave...  Rural Sports - Page 173by William Barker Daniel - 1812Full view - About this book
 | George Palmer Putnam, Author of An introduction and index to general history - 1838 - 302 pages
...The pretty vale in the foreground is the scene of Smol let's beautiful ode : 'On Leven's banks when free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain.' In sailing up the Clyde, the most remarkable sight was the immense number of steam-boats... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk - 1839 - 754 pages
...best monument, which seems to echo back, as it glides down its soft channels, his own sweet song. " On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest twain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk - 1839 - 742 pages
...back, as it glides down its soft channels, his own sweet song. " On Leven's banks, while free to rcrve, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave Hy youthful limbs I wont to lave." Al the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...And Independence o'er the day preside, Propitious power ! my patron and my pride. Ode to Lcrcn-Watcr. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...Independence o'er the day preside, Propitious power ! my patron and my pride. Odt to Lnen-WtOer. On Ijeven's utu . 1 envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent... | |
 | Scottish tourist - 1845 - 522 pages
...beautifully apostrophized by Smollett, in one of the most charming odes in the English language. On Leven*s banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe...Arcadian plain Pure stream ! in whose transparent ware My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrent stains thy limpid source ; No rocks impede thy dimpling... | |
 | John Glen - 1847 - 164 pages
...immortality which the celebrated Smollet has given to it in the .following classic Ode ON THE RIVER LEVEN. " On Leven's banks while free to rove, And tune the...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrent... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1848 - 1048 pages
...they first inspired him, wandering fancy -free — a happy and careless youth : — " On Leven's bank while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envii-d not the happiest swain That ever trodth' Arcadian plain." There is little doubt, indeed, that,... | |
 | Charles Mackie - 1850 - 556 pages
...Smollett, to whose memory a monument is erected at the village of Renton : — ON THE RIVER LEVEN. " On Leven's banks while free to rove, And tune the...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrent... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...goblins of the night ; And Independence o'er the day preside, Propitious power ! my patron and my pride. be a soldier's sepulchre. [From « The Lait ¿fan.'] All worldly snapes the Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent ware My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
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