 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 236 pages
...where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared e'en for play. VOL. II. M ra. Was naught around but images of rest, Sleep-soothing groves,...beds, that slumb'rous influence kest From poppies breath'd, and beds of pleasant green, Where never yet was creeping creature seen. Meantime unnumber'd... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1806 - 480 pages
...to her anxious mind, and conspired with the sens? of her new situation to banish sleep. CHAP. VII. " Was nought around but images of rest, •Sleep-soothing...flowery beds that slumbrous influence kest, From poppies breath'd, and banks of pleasant green, Where "never yet was creeping creature seen. Meantime unnumbered... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, tic cared even for play. III. Was nought around but images of rest: Sleep-soothing...flowery beds that slumbrous influence kest, From poppies breath'd; and beds of pleasant green, Where never yet was creeping creature seen. Meantime unnumber'd... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...imbrown'd, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared ev'n for play. Was nought around but images of rest : Sleep-soothing...groves, and quiet lawns between ; And flowery beds that slumberous influence kest, From poppies breath'd ; and beds of pleasant green, Were never yet was creeping... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...ramutn Lctha;o rore nudeateni, &c. t Horn, i! lib. 1. L v. ELEGANT EXTRACTS, From poppies breath'd; an : I know the m every where their waters sheen ; That, as thev birfcrr'd thro" the sunny glade, Thf>' restlt'-s still... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...imbrown'd, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared even for play. Was nought around but images of rest : Sleep-soothing groves, and quiet lawns between ; And flow'ry beds that slumb'rous influence kest, From poppies breath'd; and beds of pleasant green, Where... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...groves, and quiet lawns between; And flowery beds that slumberous influence kest, From poppies bnath'd; and beds of pleasant green, Where never yet was creeping creature seen. Meantime unnumbcrM glittering strc-aiulets play'd, And hurl'd every where their waters sheen ; That, as they... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...groves, and quiel lawns between; and flowery beds that slumberous influence kest, from poppies brealh'd; and beds of pleasant green, where never yet was creeping...Meantime unnumber'd glittering streamlets play'd, and hurl'd every-where their waters sheen ; that as they bicker'd through the sunny glade, tho' restless... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...imbrown'd a listless climate made, where, sooth to say, 5 living wight could work, ne cared ev'n for play. Was nought around but images of rest: sleep-soothing...groves, and quiet lawns between; and flowery beds that slumberous influence kest, from poppies breath'd; and beds of pleasant green, where never yet was creeping... | |
 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - Laziness - 1818 - 316 pages
...wight could work, ne cared even for play. III. Was naught around but images of rest : Sleep soothing groves, and quiet lawns between ; And flowery beds that slumbrous influence kest, From poppies breath'd ; and beds of pleasant green, Where never yet was creeping creature seen. Meantime unnumber'd... | |
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Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found. It was, I ween, a lovely spot of ground ; And there a season atween June and May, Half... 
