 | 1781 - 512 pages
...charm his leman doth his train unfold, That glows with vivid green, that flames with burning gold, The balmy cowflip gilds the fmiling plain, • The...in amis blue, Creeps low to earth, and hides from publick view : But the rank nettle rears her creft on high ; So ribaulds loofe their front unblufhing... | |
 | John Bell - 1790 - 390 pages
...smiling plain, The virgin snow-drop boasts her silver hue, An hundred tints the gaudy daisy stain, And the meek violet, in amis blue, Creeps low to earth,...hides from public view : But the rank nettle rears her crest on high ; So ribaulds loose their front unblushing shew, While modest merit doth neglected lie,... | |
 | John Bell - 1790 - 380 pages
...plain, t y [The virgin snow-drop boasts her silver lme,j cr JAn hundred tints the gaudy daisy stain/K'J* And the meek violet, in amis blue, Creeps low to earth, and hides from public view^} r But the rank nettle rears her crest on high^ So ribaulds loose their front unblushing shew, While... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 404 pages
...boasts her silver hue, A hundred tints the gaudy daisy stain, And the meek violet, in amis blue, Cleeps low to earth, and hides from public view: But the rank nettle rears her crest on high ; So ribalds loose their front unblushing shew, While modest merit doth neglected lie,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 444 pages
...boasts her silver hue, A hundred tints the gaudy daisy stain, And the meek violet, in amis blue, Cleeps low to earth, and hides from public view : But the rank nettle rears her crest on high ; So ribalds loose their front unblushing shew, While modest merit doth neglected lie,... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 208 pages
...smiling plain, The virgin snow-drop boasts her silver hue, An hundred tints the gaudy daisy stain, And the meek violet, in amis blue, Creeps low to earth, and hides from public view." Some years later Mendez took the field again, with his Squire of Dames. He describes the search of... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 232 pages
...smiling plain, The virgin snow-drop boasts her silver hue, An hundred tints the gaudy daisy stain, And the meek violet, in amis blue, Creeps low to earth, and hides from public view." Some years later Mendez took the field again, with his Squire of Dames. He describes the search of... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 208 pages
...smiling plain, The virgin snow-drop boasts her silver hue, An hundred tints the gaudy daisy stain, And the meek violet, in amis blue, Creeps low to earth, and hides from public view." Some years later Mendez took the field again, with his Squire of Dames. He describes the search of... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1924 - 222 pages
...the smiling plain, The virgin snowdrop boasts her silver hue, An hundred tints the gaudy daisy stain, And the meek violet in amis blue Creeps low to earth,...hides from public view ; But the rank nettle rears her crest on high ; So ribaulds loose their front unblushing show, While modest merit doth neglected lie,... | |
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The balmy cowslip gilds the smiling plain, The virgin snow-drop boasts her silver hue, An hundred tints the gaudy daisy stain, And the meek violet, in amis blue, Creeps low to earth, and hides from public view... 