 On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love; I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source; No...  The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 222by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 374 pages
...MATT. BRAMBLE. 340 THE EXPEDITION OF, &C. ODE TO LEvEN WATER. On Leven's banks, while free to rore, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trode th'Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...those, without our schools, suffice To make men moral, good, and wise. 4 IL — Ode to Leven Water. ON Leven's banks while free to rove, And tune the...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
 | James Mitchell - Scotland - 1825 - 798 pages
...beauties of this vale in so just and pleasing colours, that we cannot forbear inserting it. On Leven'» banks, while free to rove. And tune the rural pipe to love, ] envied not the happiest swain, That ever trode the Arcadian plain.' Pure stream! in whose transparent... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...suppliant poet's prayer : No cloud that rides the blast shall vex the troubled, air. Smollet. voi. m. 10 TO LEVEN-WATER. ON Leven's banks, while free to rove,...love ; I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...And those, without our schools, suffice To make men moral, good and wise. II. — Ode to Leven Water. ON Leven's banks while free to rove And tune the rural...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
 | Scotland - 1831 - 480 pages
...branches off to Helensburgh by Cardross, up the Gareloch to Loch Long side, and so on to Arrochar. •(• On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave. No torrents... | |
 | Scottish tourist - Scotland - 1832 - 490 pages
...branches off to Helensburgh by Cardross, up the Gareloch to Loch Long side, and so on to Arrochar. •f- On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave. No torrents... | |
 | B. Ducos - Great Britain - 1834 - 444 pages
...continuateur de Hume, ne dédaigna pas de chanter la riante vallée qui avait été témoin de sa naissance. On Leven's banks , while free to rove , And tune the...love , I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Areadian plain. Pure stream , in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave , No torrents... | |
 | B. Ducos - Great Britain - 1834 - 446 pages
...riante vallée qui avait été témoin de sa naissance. On Leven's banks , while free to rove , And tnne the rural pipe to love , I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod tli' Areadian plain. Pure «tream , in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave , No... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Great Britain - 1834 - 286 pages
...Smollet, the novelist, who has so sweetly sung the beauties of the Leven-side, in the lines — " On Leven banks, while free to rove And tune the rural pipe to love, 1 envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain." And at which there is a monument,... | |
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