| Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 618 pàgines
...addressed two of his lighter compositions. Now, Abbe, Know you the land, Wbere the citron and olive arc fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ? Delilie. Out upon it ! I have it : a grocer's shop kept by one Nightingale. It cannot be otherwise... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - 1847 - 522 pàgines
...oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye ? BYRON. I HAVE already stated, that in the year 1799, Lieutenant Flinders was despatched from... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pàgines
...oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul4 in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive arc done mo the honour to notice U deepest in dye ; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of... | |
| George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 pàgines
...oppress'd with perfume. Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul* in her bloom ; ftit Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of Ocean is deepest in dye ; Where the virgins... | |
| George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 pàgines
...gardens of Gul* in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, * Gul, the Rose. I /. / f And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where...the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of Ocean is deepest in dye ; Where the virgins... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1848 - 320 pàgines
...oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul (i) in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...beauty may vie, And the purple of Ocean is deepest in dye ; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pàgines
...oppressed with perfume Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gull in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye ; Where the virgins... | |
| 1903 - 664 pàgines
...commemorated what he no doubt had himself witnessed, for he had wandered Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye. 'The Bride of Abydos,' canto i. AsTARTE. SAMUEL PEPYS, 1716 (9th S. xi. 369).— If MR. WALTER... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pàgines
...ofZephyr,nppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gill in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...purple of ocean is deepest in die ; Where the virgins ure soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine ' 'Tis the clime of the... | |
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