 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
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 584 pages
...clouds, inviting the approach of ^•tnirs always, Cameron, Aug. 8. MATT. BRAMBLE. ODE TO LEVEX WATEIl. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest twain That ever trode th* Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 pages
...schools, suffice To mate men moral, good and wise. » II.— Ode to Leven Water ' ON Leven's bank, while free to rove -> And tune the rural pipe to love I envied not the happiest swain v That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I'm wont... | |
 | 1821 - 282 pages
...their dread abode, (There they, alike, in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 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... | |
 | Scotland. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Topography & Travels.] - 1821 - 378 pages
...Random, &c. was a native of this place, and has painted its bounties in an ode, beginning thus,— " On Leven's banks while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love," &c. At the distance of t*ro miles from Dunbarton, on the right, is an old mansion-house on the bank... | |
 | 1821 - 270 pages
...their dread abode, (There they, alike, in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. ODE TO LEVEN WATER. ON Leven's banks, while free to rove And tune the riiral pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 282 pages
...with toil embrown'd ; Content, with brow serenely gay, And genial Art's refulgent ray. 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...without our schools, suffice To make men moral, good, and wise. II. — Ode to Leoen Water. ON Leven'e banks while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe...Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wav« My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid source ; , No rocks impede thy... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 374 pages
...MATT. BRAMBLE. 340 THE EXPEDITION OF, &C. ODE TO LEvEN WATER. On Leven's banks, while free to rore, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trode th'Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1825 - 798 pages
...beauties of this vale in so just and pleasing colours, that we cannot forbear inserting it. On Leven'» banks, while free to rove. And tune the rural pipe to love, ] envied not the happiest swain, That ever trode the Arcadian plain.' Pure stream! in whose transparent... | |
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