... and here ! and here ! Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow . The world may find the spring by following her, For other print her airy steps ne'er left. Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 6271882Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 528 páginas
...of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk ! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot. [Exit. SCENE II. Another Part of the Same. Enter MARIAN, Friar TUCK,... | |
| 1817 - 522 páginas
...of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from its stalk ! But like the soft west-wind she shot along ; And where she went the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot. (Exit.)" The sudden entrances and exits of the melancholy lover, give a wonderful consistency and spirit... | |
| 1832 - 206 páginas
...grass ! Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk ! But like the soft West- wind she shot along, And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot. BEN JONSON. SAD SHEPHERD. TO THE DAISY. " By the murmur of a spring. By the least bough's rustling,... | |
| 1836 - 808 páginas
...of grass. Or shake the downy blow-bell from its stalk ; But like the soft west wind she shot along. And where she went the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot.' The last line is an improvement on a verse of Persius, a writer of whom Ben i* very fond, and whom... | |
| 1867 - 796 páginas
...of grass, Or shake the downy bine bell from his stalk! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her oderous foot. The melody which gives so chaste and elegant a beauty to these lines is invariable in... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 752 páginas
...of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk ! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot.'''' Tennyson has a similar idea in The Talking Oak, but has added a subtle imagination, which our old bard's... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 550 páginas
...blow-ball from his stalk ! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went, theßowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot." Tennyson has a similar idea in The Talking Oak, but has added a subtle imagination, which our old bard's... | |
| Joseph Sparkes Hall - 1847 - 170 páginas
...great that he — ' would adore the shoe And slipper was left off, and kiss it too." and again — " And where she went the flowers took thickest root. As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot." Butler, too, has the same springing up of flowers in his "Hudibras"... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 páginas
...blade of grass, Or shake the downy blowball from his stalk But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot. This delightful pastoral on the story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian is unhappily unfinished. Scarcely... | |
| 1853 - 560 páginas
...of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk ! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot. EN JONSON. SPENSER. 149 , a fimtoss. EFTSOON there stepped forth A goodly lady clad in hunter's weed,... | |
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