 While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There, every herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie. Such airy beings awe...  Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country - Page 4871846Full view - About this book
 | Odes, English - 1791 - 172 pages
...By night they sip it round the cottage-door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes, There, ev'ry herd, by sad experience, knows ' How, wing'd with...fly, When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie. Such airy beings awe th' untutor'd swain : Nor thou,... | |
 | James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1793 - 412 pages
...lafs that ikims the milky store,. To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots i By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There ev'ry herd by sad experience knows, How, wing'd wiih. fate, their eli-ihot arrows fly } When the sick... | |
 | William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 198 pages
...By night they sip it round the cottage-door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There, ev'ry herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with Fate,...fly, When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd on earth, the hcart-smit heifers lie. Such airy beings awe the untutor'd swain : Nor thou,... | |
 | William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 206 pages
...By night they sip it round the cottage-door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There, ev'ry herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with Fate, their elf-shot arrows fiy, When/the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie.... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1804 - 168 pages
...lass, that skims the milky store, To the swart tribes their creamy bowls allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble...fly, When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie, Such airy beings awe th' untutor'd swain : Nor thou,... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 166 pages
...lass, that skims the milky store, To the swart tribes their creamy bowls allots; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble...fly, When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie, Such airy beings awe t h" untutor'd swain : Let thy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...lass, that skims the milky store, To the swart tribes their creamy bowls allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage door, "While airy minstrels warble...sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fate, their self-shot arrows fly; When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd on earth, die heart... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...milky store To the swart tribes, their creamy bowls aloti; By night they sip it round the cottage-dour, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There, every...elf-shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food forgoes, Or, stretch'd on earth, the heart-smit hcifrrs lio. Such airy beings awe th' untutor'd saain... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...lass, that skims the milky store, To the swart tribes their creamy bowls allots; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble...notes. There, every herd, by sad experience, knows How, winged with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretched... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 558 pages
...they sip it round the cottage-door, While airy minstrels warhle jocund notes. There, every herd, hy sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fate, their...elf-shot arrows fly. When the sick ewe her summer food forgoes, Or, stretch'd on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie. Such airy heings awe th' untutor'd swain... | |
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