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" O let me haunt this peaceful shade. Nor let Ambition e'er invade The tenants of this leafy bower, That shun her paths, and slight her power. Hither the peaceful halcyon flies From social meads and open skies, Pleas'd by this rill her course to steer. "
The British Tourists; Or Traveller's Pocket Companion, Through England ... - Page 175
by William Fordyce Mavor - 1798
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The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: Essays on men ...

William Shenstone - 1764 - 406 pages
...of a large root on the fide of a Hope, with this infcription, O let me haunt this peaceful fhade ; Nor let ambition e'er invade The tenants of this leafy bower That fhun her paths, and flight her power. Hither the peaceful Halcyon flies From focial meads, and open flues ;...
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The Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 1

William Shenstone - Conduct of life - 1764 - 404 pages
...root on the fide of a flope, with this infcription, A a 3 O let O let me haunt this peaceful fhade ; Nor let ambition e'er invade . The tenants of this leafy bower That fhun her paths, and flight her power. Hither the peaceful Halcyon flies From focial meads, and open fkies ;...
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The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: Essays on men ...

William Shenstone - 1764 - 408 pages
...of a large root on the fide of a flope, with this infcription, O let me haunt this peaceful fhade ; Nor let ambition e'er invade The tenants of this leafy bower That faun her paths, and flight her power* Hither the peaceful Halcyon flies From focial meads, and open...
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Essays on men and manners. A description of the Leasowes, the seat of the ...

William Shenstone - 1765 - 638 pages
...large root on the fide of a flope, with this infcription, ' O let me haunt this peaceful fhade ; « Nor let Ambition e'er invade ' The tenants of this leafy bower « That ftxun her paths, and flight her power. • Hither the peaceful Halcyon flies • From focial meads,...
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The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, Esq: In Two Volumes. ...

William Shenstone - 1768 - 362 pages
...large root on the fide of a flope, with this infcriptioh, 4 O let me haunt this peaceful fhade ; ' Nor let Ambition e'er invade • The tenants of this leafy bower • That fhun her paths, and ffight her power. 4 Hither the peaceful Halcyon flies • From focial meads, and open fides...
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A New Display of the Beauties of England: Or A Description of the Most ...

England - 1776 - 702 pages
...of a large root, on the fide of a Hope, with this infcription : O let me haunt the peaceful (hade 5 Nor let ambition e'er invade The tenants of this leafy bower That fliun her paths, and flight her power. • Hither the peaceful halcycn flies From focial meads, and...
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The Works of the English Poets: Shenstone

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 352 pages
...at the Bottom of a large Roar, on the Side of a ilope. /"v Let n-.e haunt this peaceful fhade ; ^"^ Nor let Ambition e'er invade The tenants of this leafy bower That fhun her paths, and flight her power! Hither the peaceful Halcyon ffies From focial meads ar.d open ficies ;...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical ..., Volumes 53-54

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 702 pages
...Seat at the Bottom of a large Root, on the Side of a Slope. /~\ Let me haunt this peaceful fhade; ^-^ Nor let Ambition e'er invade The tenants of this leafy bower That flum her paths, and ffight her power! Hither the peaceful Halcyon fties From focial meads and open...
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The Poetical Works of Will. Shenstone

William Shenstone - 1780 - 318 pages
...on the lide of a flope, with this inieripuon : INsCRIPTION. s O let me haunt this peaeeful fhade> * Nor let Ambition e'er invade ' The tenants of this leafy bower, ' That fhun her paths, and flight her power. ' Hither the peaeeful haleyon flies ' From foeial meads and open fkies,...
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Moore. Cawthorne. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. Gray ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...a Seat at the Bottom , of a large iioot, on tne Side of.a Slope. O Let me haunt this peacefuHiade; Nor let Ambition e'er invade The tenants of this leafy bower That flinn her paths, ai:d flight her power-! Hither the peaceful Halcyon flies • . From focial meads...
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