| Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
..." But that two-handed engine at the door " Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Keturn, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
| John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...that two-handed engine4 at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus,6 the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ;...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...that two-handed engine* at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus,6 the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ;...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use 1 ' The pilot : ' Peter.—2... | |
| Thomas Keightley - Mythology, Classical - 1854 - 562 pages
...OaXaooovopos. Could that strange poet have alluded to the practice of mixing sea-water with wine ? * Ye vallies low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton...swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyfi, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...it. It is the passage which contains that exquisite description of the flowers : " Return, Alphcus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ;...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flow'rcts of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds... | |
| David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 pages
...And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye vallies low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton...swart-star sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...and nothing said. Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw But that two-handed engine at the door Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
| John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...nothing fed : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
| Gardening - 1855 - 494 pages
...Lycidas : " Call the vale«, and bid them hither bring Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hups. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star rarely looks, llring hither all your quaint, enamelled eyes That on the green turf »uck... | |
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