| John Stoddart - Scotland - 1801 - 402 pages
...Spencer, in his Faerie Queen, book ii. canto 12, speaks of the fountain, in the Bower of Bliss : " Most goodly it with curious ymageree Was over-wrought, and shapes of naked boys—- And all the margent, roun4 about, was set With shady laurell trees." In the garden of Adonis,... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1807 - 546 pages
...stood, -If richest suhstance that on earth might hee, "m pure and shiny that the silver flood Fhrough every channell running one might see; Most goodly...curious ymageree Was over-wrought, and shapes of naked hoyes, Df which some seemd, with lively iollitee, Fo fly ahout, playing their wanton toyes ; iVhy 1est... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...richest substance that on Earth might bee, So pure and shiny that the silvur flood Through every channel! running one might see; Most goodly it with curious...over-wrought, and shapes of naked boyes, Of which S'ime seemd with lively io! litre To fly about, playing their wanton toyes, Whylest others did themselves... | |
| John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...to adorn with all variety. 00 And in the midst of all a fountain stood, Of richest substance that on earth might bee. So pure and shiny that the silver flood Through every channel running one might see; Most goodly it with curious imageree Was overwrought, and shapes of... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 420 pages
...to adorne with all variety. And in the midst of all a fountaine stood, Of riehest substanee that on Earth might bee, So pure and shiny that the silver flood Through every ehannell running one might see ; Most goodly it with eurious ymageree Was over-wrought, and shapes... | |
| Ebenezer Mack - Cats - 1824 - 292 pages
...all varietie. And in the midst of all, a fountaine stood, Of richest substance that on earth might be So pure and shiny, that the silver flood Through every...channell running, one might see ; Most goodly it with pure imageree Was over- wrought, and shapes of naked boyes, Of which some seem'd with lively jollitee... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1825 - 412 pages
...adorne with all variety. LX. And in the midst of all a fountaine stood, Of richest substance that on earth might bee, So pure and shiny that the silver flood Through every channel! running one might see ; Most goodly it with curious ymageree Was over-wrought, and shapes... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1831 - 1038 pages
...to adorne with all variety. And in the midst of all a fountaine stood, Of richest substance that on Earth might bee, So pure and shiny that the silver flood Through every channell running one might sec ; Most goodly it with curious ymageree Was over-wrought, and shapes of naked boyes, Of which some... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...to adorne with all variety. And in the midst of all a fountaine stood, Of richest substance that on Earth might bee, So pure and shiny that the silver...shapes of naked boyes, Of which some seemd with lively jollitee To fly about, playing their wanton toyes, Whylest others did themselves embay in liquid joyes.... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...to adorne with all variety. And in the midst of all a fountaine stood, Of richest substance that on Earth might bee, So pure and shiny that the silver...shapes of naked boyes, Of which some seemd with lively jollitee To fly about, playing thcir wanton toyes, Whylest others did themselves embay in liquid joyes.... | |
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