 | English poetry - 1788 - 550 pages
...did chaunt this lovely lay ; ' Ah ! see, whoso fayre thing doest faine to see, ' In springing flowre the image of thy day ; ' Ah ! see the virgin rose, how sweetly shee ' Doth first peepe foorth with bashfull modestee, ' That fairer seemes the lesse ye see her may... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - 1807 - 338 pages
...the fanciful circumstance of a bird singing these words, which has been the subject of ' ridicule. Ah ! see the virgin rose, how sweetly she Doth first...with bashful modesty, That fairer seems, the less you see her may ; Lol see soon after, how more bold and free Her bared bosom she doth broad display;... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - 1810 - 414 pages
...virgin rose, how sweetly she Dost first peep forth with bashful modesty, That fairer seems, the less you see her may; Lo ! see soon after, how more bold and free Her bared bosom she doth broad display ; Lo ! see soon after, how she fades and falls away. When, half... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 pages
...heads on high.' — BerraOum. * ' Ah ! see, whoso faire thing dost faine to see In springing flowre the image of thy day ! Ah ! see the virgin rose, how sweetly shee Doth first peepe foorth with bashful modestee That fairer seemes the less ye see her may ! Lo... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 pages
...writer excelled : " The whiles some one did chaunt this lovely lay ; Ah ! see, whoso fayre thing dost fain to see, In springing flower the image of thy day ! Ah ! see the virgin rose, how sweetly she ', , .Щ&фпс; севе % Вов: J* мв Ьег яму ! * 1л\ 1ие soon after, tow more bold... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...guided in his fantastic delineations by no rule but the impulse of an inexhaustible imagination. He Doth first peep forth with bashful modesty, That fairer seems the less ye see htr may! Lo! see soon after, how more bold and free Her bared bosom she doth broad display; Lo! see... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...cbant this lovely lay: — " Ah, see ! — whoso doth fain fair thing to tee, — In springing flow'r the image of thy day ! Ah see the virgin rose, how...may ; lo, see soon after how more bold and free, Her bared bosom she doth broad display ; Lo; see soon after, how sl'.c fades and falls away ! " So passeth... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...one did chaunt this lovely lay; Ah! see, whoso fayre thing doest faine to see, In springing Jlowre the image of thy day! Ah! see the virgin rose, how sweetly shee Doth first peepe foorth with bashfull modestee, That fairer seemes the lesse ye see her may !... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - Botany - 1823 - 498 pages
...These two last lines seem to bring the opening leaves of the Rose-bush immediately before our eyes. ' Ah ! see the virgin rose, how sweetly she Doth first...; Lo ! see soon after, how more bold and free Her bared bosom she doth broad display ; Lo ! see soon after, how she fades and falls away." SPENSER. Perhaps... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...his case she rued. The while, some one did chaunt this lovely lay; " Ah see, whose fair thing dost onal, tho' u i Lo, see soon after, how more bold and free Her bared bosom she doth broad display ; Lo, see soon... | |
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The whiles some one did chaunt this lovely lay; Ah! see, whoso fayre thing dost fain to see, In springing flower the image of thy day! Ah ! see the virgin rose, how sweetly she Doth first peep forth with bashful modesty, That fairer seems the less ye... 
