 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
 | Scottish tourist - 1845 - 522 pages
...beautifully apostrophized by Smollett, in one of the most charming odes in the English language. On Leven*s banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th* Arcadian plain Pure stream ! in whose transparent ware My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrent... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1848 - 1048 pages
...they first inspired him, wandering fancy -free — a happy and careless youth : — " On Leven's bank while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envii-d not the happiest swain That ever trodth' Arcadian plain." There is little doubt, indeed, that,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...Independence o'er the day preside, Propitious power ! my patron and my pride. Ode to Leven- Water. chre. [From « The Lait ¿fan.'] All worldly snapes ware My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...Tweed-tide, and Ettrick'a Banks," arc not among the least pleasing. Guam's "Highland* of Scotland," 1789. ODE TO LEVEN-WATER. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to lore, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...flow: "Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish 'd peace, thy laurels torn/' ODE TO LKVF.N-WATER. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe tfl love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 478 pages
...not among the least pleasing. GILFIN'E "ffigMandtafaaoOand," 17S9. ODE TO LEV EN- WATER. On I.even's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe...happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. I'ure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; Nu torrents stain thy limpid... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace, thy laurels torn." ODE TO LEVEN-WATER. On Levcn's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe...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... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1857 - 338 pages
...fantastic vision in the clouds, inviting the approach of vours always, MATT. BEAMRLR. ODE TO LEVEN WATER. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful liinbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid source ; No rocks impede thy dimpling course,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...flow: " Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace, thy laurels torn." ODE TO LEVEN-AVATER. 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... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Fishing - 1858 - 228 pages
...and educated on its banks, in an ode which is justly considered one of the finest in our language. " On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthfid limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents strain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling... | |
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