 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
 | Michael Bruce - 1865 - 334 pages
...and by which name it has been celebrated by Smollett, in the famous Ode beginning — ' On Lcven'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 elear, by others... | |
 | Michael Bruce - 1865 - 292 pages
...and by which name it has been celebrated by Smollett, in the famous Ode beginning — ' On I,evcn'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... | |
 | 1866 - 132 pages
...hills the fragrant harvest grows, And spreads along the field in equal rows. GAY. 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 plainPure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...C. Hopkins, -u. Nicholls' Col. Po^tr.s, ii. p. 207. £obtas Smollctt. ODE TO LEVEN- WATER. N Lcvcn's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe...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... | |
 | 1867 - 148 pages
...rake ; In rising hills the fragrant harvest grows, And spreads along the field in equal rows. GAT. 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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...Nor wonder, if you find that none Prefers your eyesight to his own." TOBIAS G. SMOLLETT. (1721-1771.) 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... | |
 | David Grant (of Aberdeen) - 1871 - 478 pages
...undisturbed ; But Egypt would turn pale, Were her still Nile's o'erflowing bounty curbed ! THE LEVEN. f N Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural...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 Blakey - 1871 - 244 pages
...is justly considered one of the finest in our language. " On Leven's banks, while free to rove, Aud 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 ; No tonents... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy Imnish'd peace, ihy laurels Kirn." ODE TO LEVEN-WATER. On Lcven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe...Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful lirnbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 pages
...woods," shall he say, "In yonder grave your Druid lies!" THE THAMES NEAR RICHMOND. TOBIAS SMOLLETT. 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... | |
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