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" Since thou, delicious youth, didft quit the plains, Th' ungrateful ground we till with fruitlefs pains, In labour'd furrows fow the choice of wheat, And, over empty fheaves, in harveft fweat, 71 A thin incieafe our fleecy cattle yield ; And thorns, and... "
Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolicorum Eclogae Decem - Page 212
by Virgil - 1749 - 397 pages
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Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems

Elijah Fenton - College verse - 1707 - 426 pages
...born. Since thou, delicious Youth, didft quit the Plains, Th'tmgrateful Ground we till with fruitlefs Pains ; In labour'd Furrows fow the Choice of Wheat, And over empty Sheaves in Harveft fweat: A thin Increafe our woolly Subftance yields, "'•' * •.j • -A , And...
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Pastorals, Issue 1

Ambrose Philips - Pastoral poetry, English - 1710 - 32 pages
...j As Coin the Vales, and Trees the Hills adorn, So thou to thine an Ornament was born. Since thcu, delicious Youth, didft quit the Plains, Th' ungrateful Ground we till with fruitlefs Pains; Inlabour.'d Furrows fow the Choice of Wheat, And over empty Sheaves ift Harveft fweat...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 2

William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 426 pages
...born. Since thou, delicious Youth, didft quit the Plains, Th' ungratefuUGround we till with fruitlefs Pains : In labour'd Furrows fow the Choice of Wheat, And over empty Sheaves in Harveft fweat : A thin Increafe our woolly Subftance yields, And Thorns and Thiitles overfpread...
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Pub. Virgilii Maronis Bucolicorum eclogae decem. The Bucolicks of Virgil ...

Publius Vergilius Maro - 1749 - 530 pages
...adorning the elms by which it is fupported. Thus Philips; " As corn the vales, and trees the " hub adorn, " So thou to thine an ornament was " born....furrows fow the " choice of wheat, " And over empty iheaves in bar" veftfweat: " A thin increafe our woolly fub" ftance yreld, " And thorns and thirties...
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A Supplement to the Works of the Most Celebrated Minor Poets ...

Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon - English literature - 1750 - 500 pages
...rtreams do ihow, And filver ftreams to grace the meadows flow ; As corn the vales, and trees the hüls adorn, So thou to thine an ornament was born. Since...quit the plains, Th' ungrateful ground we till with fruitlefs pains j In labour'd furrows fow the choice of wheat, And over empty (heaves in harveft fweat...
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The Works of the English Poets: Parnell and A. Philips

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 428 pages
...meadows flow, As corn the vales, and trees the hills adorn, So thou, to thine, an ornament was born. 6t Since thou, delicious youth, didft quit the plains, Th' ungrateful ground we till with fruitlefs pams, In labour'd furrows fow the choice of wheat, And, over empty fheaves, in harveft fweat,...
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How to Read and Declaim

Grenville Kleiser - Elocution - 1779 - 422 pages
...meadows flow, As corn the vales, and trees the hills adorn, So thou, to thine, an ornament was born. 68 Since thou, delicious youth, didft quit the plains, Th' ungrateful ground we till with fruitlefs pains, In labour'd furrows fow the choice of wheat, And, over empty fheaves, in harveft fweat,...
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The English Parnassus: Being a New Selection of Didactic, Descriptive ...

John Adams - English poetry - 1789 - 376 pages
...bom. Since thou, delicious youth, didft quit the plains, TV ungrateful ground we till with fruitlefs pains; In labour'd furrows fow the choice of wheat, And over empty fheaves in harveft fweat : A thin increafe does our whole fubftance yield, And thorns and thiftles...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 57

English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...68 Since thou, delicious youth, didft quit the plains, TV ungrateful ground we till with fruitlefs pains, In labour'd furrows fow the choice of wheat, And, over empty fheaves, in harveft fweat, 73 A thin increafe our fleecy cattle yield ; And thorns, and thiftles, overfpread...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 9

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 972 pages
...tloir, As corn the vales, and trees the hills adorn, So tlwm, to thine, an ornament W»s kovn< 3*7 Since thou, delicious youth, didft quit the plains,...Th' ungrateful 'ground we till with fruitleis pains, la Ubour'd furrows low the choice of wheat, And, over empty (heaves, in harveft fweat, A thin increafe...
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