THE care of sheep, the labours of the loom, And arts of trade, I sing. Ye rural nymphs, Ye swains, and princely merchants, aid the verse. And ye, high-trusted guardians of our isle, Whom public voice approves, or lot of birth To the great charge assigns:... General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent ... - Page 495by John Aikin - 1802Full view - About this book
| John Bell - English poetry - 1799 - 436 pages
...sprinkling the rivers with flowers. Sheep-shearing feut and mtrriments on the b-inks of the Severn. THE care of sheep, the labours of the loom, And arts of trade, I sing. Ye rural Nymphs ! Ve Swains, and princely Merchants ! aid the verse. -And ye, high-trusted... | |
| John Aikin - Books and reading - 1806 - 346 pages
...who united the art of painting to that of verse. He gives the design of his work in these words : , The care of sheep, the labours of the loom, And arts of trade, I sing. The first of these heads is in some measure associated with poetry by its connexion with pastoral... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...sprinkling the rivers with flowers. Sheep-shearing feast and merriments on the banks of the Severn. THE care of sheep, the labours of the loom, And arts of trade, I sing. Ye rural nymphs, Ye swains, and princely merchants, aid the verse. And ye, high-trusted guardians... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...sprinkling the rivers with flowers. Sheep shearing feast and merriments on the banks of the Severn. THE care of sheep, the labours of the loom, And arts of trade, I sing. Ye rural nymphs! Ye swains, and princely merchants! aid the verse, And ye, high trusted guardians... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...rivers with flowers. Sheepsheariog feast and merriments on the banks of the Severn. THE FLEECE. BOOK I. THE care of sheep, the labours of the loom, And arts of trade, I sing. Ye rural nymphs! Ye swains , and princely merchants ! aid the verse ; And ye, high trusted... | |
| William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...known, though justly meriting regard, begins his poem, entitled the Fleece, in a similar manner : " The care of sheep, the labours of the loom, And arts of trade, I sing. Ye rural nymphs, Ye swains and princely merchants, aid the verse." The following lines of the... | |
| Robert Williams - Wales - 1852 - 574 pages
...resided at Coningsby, but the fenny country did not agree with his health, which was always delicate. In 1757, he published his largest work, "The Fleece,...sheep, the labours of the loom, and arts of trade," but notwithstanding the skill and abilities of the poet, the subject was not at all adapted to poetry.... | |
| Mark Akenside, John Dyer - 1855 - 472 pages
...sprinkling the rivers with flowers — Sheepshearing feast and merriments on the banks of the Severn. THE care of Sheep, the labours of the Loom, And arts of Trade, I sing. Ye rural nymphs, Ye swains, and princely merchants, aid the verse. And ye, high-trusted guardians... | |
| John Armstrong, John Dyer, George Gilfillan, Matthew Green - English poetry - 1858 - 314 pages
...sprinkling the rivers with flowers. Sheep-shearing feast and merriments on the banks of the Severn. THE care of sheep, the labours of the loom, And arts of trade, I sing. Ye rural nymphs, Ye swains, and princely merchants, aid the verse. And ye, high-trusted guardians... | |
| John Armstrong (Physician & Poet.) - 1880 - 692 pages
...sprinkling the rivers with flowers. Sheep-shearing feast and merriments on the banks of the Severn. THE care of sheep, the labours of the loom, And arts of trade, I sing. Ye rural nymphs, Ye swains, and princely merchants, aid the verse. And ye, high-trusted guardians... | |
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