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
| Robert Heron - 1799 - 432 pages
...ode by Dr SMOLLET*, which is fo exquifitely defcriptive, that we cannot forbear to tranfcribe it : On Leven's banks while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happieft Twain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure * The celebrated Dr SMOLLET was born on the... | |
| Chaplet - 1805 - 238 pages
...hour, That leads from scenes of care To still domestic bliss. ODE T9 LEVEtf-WATEfe. Ofi Leven's bairki, while free to rove; And tune the rural pipe to love;...Arcadian plain, Pure stream, in whose transparent \vare JMy youthful limbs I wont to lave j No torrents stain thy limpid source : No rocks impede thy... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...vex the troubled air. I i2 §89. Boot II. ELEGANT EXTRACTS, § 89. Ode to Le vtn Water. SMOLLET. /"\N Leven's banks, while free to rove, ^~* And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happieft (wain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure ftream ! in whofe tranfparent wave My youthful... | |
| Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 584 pages
...describes the natural beauties of the spot with such truth and elegance that we shall here insert it. On Leven's banks, While free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, 1 envied not the happjeat twain That ever trode tji* Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent... | |
| Hewson Clarke - 1805 - 308 pages
...inftanc^: of the union of defcription and fentiment, i (hail make no farther apology for inferting it. On Leven's banks while free to rove And tune the rural pipe to Love, 1 envy'd not the happieft fwain That ever trod th' Arcadian pUin. Purs Itream ! in whofc tranfparent... | |
| Robert Forsyth - 1806 - 604 pages
...describes the natural beauties of the spot \vith. such truth and elegance that we shall here insert it. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trode th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave,... | |
| Robert Forsyth - 1806 - 604 pages
...natural beauties of the spot with such truth and elegance that we shall here insert it. On Level's banks , while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, 1 envied not the happiest swain That ever trode th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent... | |
| 1808 - 506 pages
...abound, When all carry thither a little each day, And we meet with so few who bring it away. Anonymous. ON Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envy'd not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...rides the blast sliall vex the troubled air. Hh3 ELEGANT EXTRACTS, § fe7- Ode to Leven Water. SMOLLET. e renown than they, Was sent before but to prepare thy way ; And coarse 1 envied not the happiest swain That ever trod ih' Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 682 pages
...with toil embrown'd, Content, with brow serenely gay, And genial Art's refulgent ray. TO I.EVEN-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... | |
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