 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...IIENB.Y. But canst thou, tender maid, canst thou sustain Afflictive want, or hunger's pressing pain ? hy dear and only Son Perceive thee purposed not to...wrath, and end the strife Of mercy and justice in th J When, chill'd by adverse snows and beating rain, We tread with weary steps the longsome plain ; When... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...veil, That from his sight it enviously should hide her. Drayton. Moses Hit Birth and Miracles, book i. Those limbs, in lawn, and softest silk array'd, From...can they resist The parching Dog-star, and the bleak Norlh-East ? Prior. Edwin and Emma. _ wild untilled, shrubby, or bushy plain." /Cotgrave. It. and Sp.... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...alone. But canst thou, tender maid, canst thon sustain Afflictive want, or hunger's pressing pain ? Those limbs, in lawn and softest silk array'd, From...resist The parching dog-star, and the bleak north-east I When, chill'd by adverse snows and beating rain, We tread with weary steps the longsome plain ; When... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1853 - 220 pages
...Henry. But canst thou, tender maid, canst thou sustain Afflictive want, or hunger's pressing pain? Those limbs, in lawn and softest silk array'd, From...the longsome plain; When with hard toil we seek our ev'ning food, Berries and acorns from the neighb'ring wood ; And find among the cliffs no other house,... | |
 | Matthew Prior - English poetry - 1858 - 506 pages
...sustain Afflictive want, or hunger's pressing pain! Those limbs, in lawn and softest silk arrayed, 366 From sunbeams guarded, and of winds afraid ; Can they...parching dog-star, and the bleak north-east? When, chilled by adverse snows and beating rain, 370 We tread with weary steps the longsome plain ; When... | |
 | Matthew Prior - English poetry - 1866 - 350 pages
...HENRY. But canst thou, tender maid, canst thou sustain Afflictive want, or hunger's pressing pain ? Those limbs, in lawn and softest silk array'd, From...rain, We tread with weary steps the longsome plain; 371 When with hard toil we seek our evening food, Berries and acorns, from the neighbouring wood ;... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...sustain afflictive want, or hunger's pressing pain? those limbs, in lawn and softest silk arrayed, from sunbeams guarded and of winds afraid, can they...parching dog-star, and the bleak north-east? When chilled by adverse snows and beating rain, we tread with weary steps the longsome plain; when with... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1871 - 492 pages
...thus decorated and dilated : HENRY. Thofe limbs, in lawn and fofteft filk array 'd, From fun-beams guarded, and of winds afraid ; Can they bear angry Jove ? can they refift The parching dog-ltar, and the bleak north-eaft ? When, chill'd by adverfe fnows and beating... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...alone But canst thou, tender maid, canst thou sustain Afflictive want, or hunger's pressing pain ? , Wo tread with weary steps the longsome plain ; When with hard toil we seek our evening food. Berries... | |
 | Sidney Lanier, Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1882 - 512 pages
...HENRY. But canst thou, tender maid, canst thou sustain Afflictive want, or hunger's pressing pain ? Those limbs in lawn and softest silk array'd, From...with weary steps the longsome plain ; 'When with hard to1l we seek our evening food, 1 A corruption of par Diet/, by God One may almost say that in the Middle... | |
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But canst Thou, tender Maid, canst Thou sustain Afflictive Want, or Hunger's pressing Pain ? Those Limbs, in Lawn and softest Silk array'd, From Sun-beams guarded, and of Winds afraid ; Can they bear angry JOVE ? Can they resist The parching Dog-star,... 
