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
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 pages
...toil embrown'd, Content, with brow serenely gay, And genial Art's refulgent ray. TO I.EVEN-WATER. •N eir glad hearts within their bosoms burn. Let us,...good shepherds then, employ Our grateful voices to pr the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave bfv youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 pages
...toil embrown'd, Content, with brow serene'.y gav, And genial Art's refulgent ray." TO I.EVEN-WATEH. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to lovej I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. .Pure stream! in whose transparent... | |
| Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 492 pages
...for we are indebted to him for the following beautiful lines to the lake itself. On Leven's hanks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod tii" Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No... | |
| 1819 - 384 pages
...I cannot refrain from introducing Smollett's " picturesque and accurately descriptive ode to Levcn water :" — On Leven's banks while free to rove,...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs 1 wont to lave; No torrents... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...flow : " Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn " Thy banish'd peace, thy laurels torn." ODE 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... | |
| 1819 - 382 pages
...introducing Smollett's " picturesque and accurately descriptive ode to Leven water:" — On Leven's hanks 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 1 wont to lave ; No... | |
| Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 748 pages
...delineated, with incomparable elegance and simplicity, in his picturesque and accurately descriptive Ode to Leven Water. " On Leven's banks, while free...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod tli' Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave Mr youthful Hmbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
| 1820 - 254 pages
...clouds, inviting the approach of Yours always, Cameron, Aug. 28. MATT. BRAMBLE. ODE TO LEVEN-WATEE. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. My youthful limbs I wont to lave; Pure stream! in whose transparent wave No torrents stain thy limpid... | |
| Tobias George Smollett - 1820 - 254 pages
...clouds, inviting the approach of Yours always, Cameron, Aug. 28. MATT. BRAMBLE. ODE TO LEVEN-WATER. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. I'ure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid... | |
| William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...those, without our schools, suffice Fo make men moral good and wise. II.— Qrfe- to Leven Water, OK 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 transpar""* wave My youthful limbs I wont to lav No torrents... | |
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