There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees; humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers; meadows, enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers; thickets, which, being lined with... The Tuftonian - Page 1811901Full view - About this book
| Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers; meadows, enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing s minutely critical and exacting. Once when he dined...Earl of Orrery, he said of a waiter in the room: ' T well -tuned birds; each pasture stored with sheep, feeding with sober security: while the pretty lambs,... | |
| John Addington Symonds - Authors, English - 1886 - 220 pages
...seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers : meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so too by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep, feeding... | |
| John Addington Symonds - Great Britain - 1887 - 214 pages
...seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers: meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so too by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds; each pasture stored with sheep, feeding with... | |
| John Addington Symonds - Great Britain - 1887 - 212 pages
...seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers: meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so too by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds; each pasture stored with sheep, feeding with... | |
| A. L. Stronach - English literature - 1891 - 290 pages
...comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows, enamelled4 with all sorts of eyepleasing flowers; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so too by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep, feeding... | |
| Samuel Ramsey - English language - 1892 - 596 pages
...enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with the most pleasing shade, were witnessed so to by the cheerful disposition...pasture stored with sheep, feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd piping as... | |
| David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - English literature - 1893 - 534 pages
...sorts of eyepleasing flowers ; thickets which, bemg lined with the most pleasant shade, were velussed by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds...pasture stored with sheep, feeding with sober security ; while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved their dams' comfort ; here a shepherd-boy piping... | |
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - English fiction - 1894 - 322 pages
...comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows, enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers; thickets, which, being lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so too by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds; . . . here a shepherd's boy piping as though... | |
| Calendars - 1895 - 416 pages
...thickets, which beiug lined with most pleasant shade were intressed so too by the cheerful disposition'of many well-tuned birds : each pasture stored with sheep, feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating outcry craved the dam's comfort : here a shepherd's boy piping,... | |
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