 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1864 - 608 pàgines
...vain Amid nymphs of a higher degree ; It is not for me to explain How fair and how fickle they be. Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower... | |
 | Collection - 1755 - 378 pàgines
...bofom, be fure, is as cold ? "• How the nightingales labour the ftrain, "• With the notes of his charmer to vie j " How they vary their accents in vain, "• Repine at her triumphs, and die." V. To the grove or the garden he ftrays, And pillages every fweet; Then, fuiting the wreath to his... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 384 pàgines
...fure, is as cold ? " How the nightingales labour the ftrain, " With the notes of his charmer to vie ; " How they vary their accents in vain, " Repine at her triumphs, and die." V. To the grove or the garden he ftrays, And pillages every fweet; Then, fuiting the wreath to his... | |
 | William Shenstone - 1765 - 510 pàgines
...be fure, is as cold ? How the nightingales labour the drain, With the notes of his charmer to vie; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die." To And pillages every fweet; Then, fuiting the wreath to his lays He throws it at PHYLLIS'S feet. "... | |
 | 1765 - 414 pàgines
...fure, is as cold ; *' How the nightingales labour the ftrain, " With the notes of his charmer to vie: " How they vary their accents in vain, " Repine at her triumphs, and die." V. To the grove or the garden he Arrays, And pillages every fWeet; Then, fuiting the wreath to his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 286 pàgines
...Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It is not for me to explain How fair and how fickle they be. IV. Alas! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repofe. Yet time may diminifh the pain : The flow'r,... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1770 - 402 pàgines
...is as cold ; " How the nightingales labour the ftrain, " With the notes of his charmer to vie: «« How they vary their accents in vain, " Repine at her triumphs, and die." V. To the grove or the garden he ftrays, And pillages every fweet; Then, fuiting the wreath to his... | |
 | 1773 - 394 pàgines
...fure, is as cold, R How the nightingales labour the /train, With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die." To the grove or the garden he ftrays, And pillages every fweet; Then, failing ihe wrea'.h to his lays,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1774 - 316 pàgines
...be fure, is as cold : How the nightingales labour the ftrain, With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die. To the grove or the garden he ftrays, And pillages every fweet; Then, fuiting the wreath to his lays,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1774 - 328 pàgines
...be fure, is as cold : How the nightingales labour the ftrain, With the notes of his charmer to vie; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die. To the grove or the garden he ftrays, And pillages every fweet; Then, failing the wreath to his lays,... | |
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charmer to vie j How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die. In the fourth I find nothing better than this natural ftrain of Hope: Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes, When I 
