A Book of English Pastoral VerseJohn Barrell, John Bull, John Stanley Bull Oxford University Press, 1975 - 539 pages |
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Page 377
... seen by both men as one of comfortable jollity . The labourers in The Seasons are delighted , as we have seen , at the bounty of nature towards their employers ; and for Gray the happiness of the ploughman , jocund as he drives his team ...
... seen by both men as one of comfortable jollity . The labourers in The Seasons are delighted , as we have seen , at the bounty of nature towards their employers ; and for Gray the happiness of the ploughman , jocund as he drives his team ...
Page 388
... seen With headlong Fury scour the level Green ; Or mount the hills , if Hills are in his Way , As if no Labour could his Fire allay ; Till Phoebus , shining with meridian Heat , Has bath'd his panting Sides in briny Sweat : The lengthen ...
... seen With headlong Fury scour the level Green ; Or mount the hills , if Hills are in his Way , As if no Labour could his Fire allay ; Till Phoebus , shining with meridian Heat , Has bath'd his panting Sides in briny Sweat : The lengthen ...
Page 397
... seen , Earth , clad in russet , scorn'd the lively green : The plague of locusts they secure defy , For in three hours a grasshopper must die : No living thing , whate'er its food , feasts there , But the cameleon , who can feast on air ...
... seen , Earth , clad in russet , scorn'd the lively green : The plague of locusts they secure defy , For in three hours a grasshopper must die : No living thing , whate'er its food , feasts there , But the cameleon , who can feast on air ...
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Glossary | 10 |
Egloga Tertia | 23 |
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 37 |
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