...Vico, Bolsena, and Geneva, and, upon my honour, I prefer Loch Lomond to them all.' And so in his ' Ode to Leven Water :' — ' On Leven's banks while...happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain.' This was the re-awakened patriotism of the elderly Scot revisiting his native place after long absence....

...honour, I prefer Loch Lomond to them all.' And so in his ' Ode to Leven Water :' — ' On Leven 's banks while free to rove And tune the rural pipe to...happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain.' This was there-awakened patriotism of the elderly Scot revisiting his native place after long absence....

...and educated on its banks, in an ode which is justly considered one of the finest in our language. " 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 youthfid limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents...

...please, howe'er forlorn, That still they can recal those happier days. — WARTON. TO LEVEN-WATER. 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...

...and educated on its banks, in an ode which is justly considered one of the finest in our language. " 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...

...poems are all short, bnt they show he could have excelled in verse if he had cultivated the talent. ODE TO LEVEN WATER. ON Leven's banks, while free 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 ; No torrents...

...far away in the interior of India, I heard accidentally Smollett's beautiful lines, beginning, — On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, repeated by a countryman. The effect was instantaneous, and reminded me of Humboldt's theory, that...

...rake ; In rising hills the fragrant harvest grows, And spreads along the field in equal rows. GAY. ODE TO LEVEN WATER. ON Leven's banks, while free 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 ; No torrents...

...hills the fragrant harvest grows, And spreads along the field in equal rows. GAT. ODE TO LEVEN WATEK. 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...

...still named, and by which name it has been celebrated by Smollett, in the famous Ode beginning — ' On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love.' The word Leven is held to be of Saxon origin, and by some it is understood to mean clear, by others...