 Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...  Little Classics - Page 7edited by - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 490 pages
...country, and have seen it in this.' He then read what he had done of it that morning, beginning, ' Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth,...often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happinefts endear'd each sceue I How often have I paused on every charm,-* The shelter'd cot,—the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 484 pages
...he had done of it that morning, beginning, ' Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of ray youth, when every sport could please. How often have...I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each iceue! How often have I paused on every charm,— The shelter'd cot,—the cultivated... | |
 | English poetry - 1834 - 340 pages
...Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paus'd on every charm, The shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...country, and have seen it in this.' He then read what he had done of it that morning, beginning, ' Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could pleue, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each sceuel How often... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...country, and have seen it in this.' He then read what he had done of it that morning, beginning, ' Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could pleaee. How often have I loitered o'er thy green. Where humble happiness endear'd each scene I How... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth,...I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm,... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1837 - 546 pages
...respect they resemble elegiac poetry, and many passages have the true spirit of a pastoral lament. " How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered...never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 600 pages
...enjoyment in early life, and of boyish delights, he with equal truth and affection calls them — " Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth...could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green ! " And again — " How often have I paused on every charm ! " Personal allusions such as these may... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1837 - 572 pages
...enjoyment in early life, and of boyish delights, he with equal truth and affection calls them— ' Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth...could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green !' " And again— 'How often have I paused on every charm!' " Personal allusions such as these may... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 604 pages
...enjoyment in early life, and of boyish delights, he with equal truth and affection calls them — " Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth...could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green !" And again — " How often have I paused on every charm !" Personal allusions such as these may be... | |
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