| Bourne Hall Draper - Bible - 1845 - 352 pages
...to learn not long since. The subject, Harry, is the same. Who can help saying, * Lowth's Version. " The swain in barren deserts with surprise, Sees lilies...amidst the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear. On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abode, The green leaf trembles and the bulrush... | |
| William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...Their vines a shadow to their race shall yield, And the same hand that sowed shall reap the field. The swain in barren deserts with surprise Sees lilies...amidst the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear. On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the bulrush... | |
| Jews - 1848 - 564 pages
...desert scenery, when its barrenness and drought are exchanged for fertility and springs of water : — " The swain, in barren deserts, with surprise Sees lilies...amidst the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear. On rifted rocks, the dragons' late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the bulrush... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...Their vines a shadow to their race shall yield, And the same hand that sowed, shall reap the field. The swain in barren deserts with surprise Sees lilies...amidst the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear. 1 Isaiah xxxv, 5, 6. 2 Adamantine — from the Greek ada/JMVTHO$ , which is from... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...ore scattered along the track ; and the wanderer, unaccustomed to beauty amid all this dreariness, " In barren deserts, with surprise, Sees lilies spring, and sudden verdure rise ; And starts amid the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear." The slaves as they march vcear... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...race shall yield, 65 And the same hand that sow'd, shall reap the field. The swain in barren deserts4 with surprise Sees lilies spring, and sudden verdure...amidst the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear. 70 On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...Their vines a shadow to their race shall yield, And the same hand that sowed shall reap the field. The swain in barren deserts, with surprise, Sees lilies spring, and sudden verdure rise ; And starts, amid the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear. On rifted rocks, the dragon's... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...Their vines a shadow to their race shall yield, 65 And the same hand that sow'd, shall reap the field. The swain in barren deserts' with surprise Sees lilies...amidst the thirsty wilds, to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear. 70 On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the... | |
| Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 pages
...Their vines a shadow to their race shall yield, And the same hand that sowed shall reap the field ; The swain in barren deserts with surprise Sees lilies...amidst the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear. On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the bulrush... | |
| Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...Their vines a shadow to their race shall yield, And the same hand that sow'd shall reap the field. The swain in barren deserts with surprise Sees lilies spring, and sudden verdnre rise ; And starts, amidst the thirsty wilds, to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear.... | |
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