The Works of the English Poets, Volume 12J. D. Cornish, 1779 - 390 pages |
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... foil a stony harvest yields , Your teeming ewes fhall no strange meadows try , Nor fear a rott from tainted company . Behold yon bordering fence of fallow trees 70 Is fraught with flowers , the flowers are fraught with bees : The bufy ...
... foil a stony harvest yields , Your teeming ewes fhall no strange meadows try , Nor fear a rott from tainted company . Behold yon bordering fence of fallow trees 70 Is fraught with flowers , the flowers are fraught with bees : The bufy ...
Page 41
... foil fhall every product bear . The labouring hind his oxen shall disjoin , No plough fhall hurt the glebe , no pruning - hook the vine , Nor wool fhall in diffembled colours fhine ; 50 But the luxurious father of the fold , With native ...
... foil fhall every product bear . The labouring hind his oxen shall disjoin , No plough fhall hurt the glebe , no pruning - hook the vine , Nor wool fhall in diffembled colours fhine ; 50 But the luxurious father of the fold , With native ...
Page 51
... foil then stiffening by degrees , Shut from the bounded earth , the bounding feas , Then earth and ocean various forms disclose ; And a new fun to the new world arofe . And mifts condens'd to clouds obfcure the sky ; And clouds diffolv ...
... foil then stiffening by degrees , Shut from the bounded earth , the bounding feas , Then earth and ocean various forms disclose ; And a new fun to the new world arofe . And mifts condens'd to clouds obfcure the sky ; And clouds diffolv ...
Page 75
... foil forego , And climb the frozen Alps , and tread th ' eternal fnow . Ye frofts and fnows , her tender body spare ; Those are not limbs for ificles to tear . For me , the wilds and deferts are my choice ; 70 The Muses , once my care ...
... foil forego , And climb the frozen Alps , and tread th ' eternal fnow . Ye frofts and fnows , her tender body spare ; Those are not limbs for ificles to tear . For me , the wilds and deferts are my choice ; 70 The Muses , once my care ...
Page 91
... foils , traces out the original of agriculture , gives a cata- logue of the husbandman's tools , fpecifies the em ... foil , and when to fow the corn ; The The care of fheep , of oxen , and of [ 9 ] The GEORGICS, Book I 116 344 174.
... foils , traces out the original of agriculture , gives a cata- logue of the husbandman's tools , fpecifies the em ... foil , and when to fow the corn ; The The care of fheep , of oxen , and of [ 9 ] The GEORGICS, Book I 116 344 174.
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