 I saw them under a green mantling vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a...  Microcosm. General index - Page 68by Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...smooth as Hebe's their unrazor'd lips. Com. Two such I saw, what time the labour'd ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swink'd hedger at his supper sat; I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe... | |
 | John Milton - 1808 - 96 pages
...smooth as Hehe's their unrazor'd lips. 290 Com. Two such I saw, what time the lahour'd ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swink'd hedger at his supper sat; I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, 2$b V. 276. &c.]... | |
 | John Smith, George Canning, Robert Percy Smith, John Hookham Frere - 1809 - 192 pages
...mosttritiingal((•ration. Milton, a strict observer as well as a constant imitator of the antients, has adopted the same idea in the following lines, What time the labor'd ox, With loosen'd traces from the furrow came, And the svrink'd hedger at his supper sat. The... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 424 pages
...war ; But not till half the prostrate forest lay Stretch'd in long ruin, and expos'd to day. POPE. And it is a curious consideration* that in a period...following lines : . What time the labour'd ox With looseti'd traces from the furrow came, And the swink'd hedger at his supper sat. The father of English... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...they of manly prime, or youthful bloom? Com. Two such I saw, what time the labour'd ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swink'd hedger at his supper sat ; I raw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, 295 Plucking... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...smooth as Hebe's their unrazor'd lips. Com. Two such I saw, what time the labour'd ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swink'd hedger at his supper sat. I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...smooth as Hebe's their unrazor'd lips. Com. Two such I saw, what time the labour'd ox In his loose ureties will we have for thy return ; That at the time prefix'd thou ; I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...smooth as Hebe's their unrazor'd lips. Comus. Two such I saw, what time the labour'd ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swink'd hedger at his supper sat; I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...smooth as Hebe's their unrazor'd lips. Com. Two such I saw, what time the labour'd ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swink'd hedger at his supper sat ; I saw them under a green mantling vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill, 295 Plucking... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...smooth as Hebe's their unrazor'd lips. Com. Two such I saw, what time the labour'd ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swink'd hedger at his supper sat ; I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe... | |
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