 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...dight; "While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singpth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every...dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Russet lawns, and fallows... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...the morning ! " When the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milk maid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe ; And...shepherd, tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." Who can be insensible to the charm which the last couplet throws over the whole of this passage ? But... | |
 | 1827 - 464 pages
...Through the high wood echoing shrill. While the ploughman near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milk-maid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe. MILTON. Pray you come? I will; Albeit there is nought better Than disporting i'th greenwood. OLD PIAY.... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...clouds in thousand liveries dight, While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd hind, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets...hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasure*. Whilst the landskip round it measures ; Russet lawns and fallows gray, Where the nibbling... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1823 - 424 pages
...hillocks green ; While the plowman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, ' •'• • t And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, , And every shepherd tells his t«le • . „ • '> ' i Under the hawthorn in the dale. How pleasant it is to read one of our poets... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...Rob'd in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liv'ries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milk-maid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his sithe, And ev'ry shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - Botany - 1823 - 498 pages
...yields to none of them. It is very common in every part of England ; is to be seen in every hedge : " And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." MILTON, L'ALLEGRO. We must not, however, let our fancies run so riot, as to suppose that the poet here... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the Ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the Milkmaid singeth blithe, And the Mower...dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, VVhere the nibbling flocks... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Rob'd in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight, While the plowman near at d from death by force, though pale and Strait mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures; Russet lawns, and... | |
 | Author of the Buxton diamonds - English poetry - 1824 - 160 pages
...While the ploughman near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singing blythe, And the mower whets his scythe ; And every shepherd...dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures/ Whilst the landscape round it measures : Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks... | |
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While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. 
