Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute. Conversations at Cambridge - Page 79by Charles Valentine De Grice - 1836 - 299 pagesFull view - About this book
| Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...conceits with civet and ambergris. However, count, I have opened upon a beautiful motto for you : * Here let me, careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying, With all the wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.' What... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...fond artists does despise That can the fair and living trees neglect, Yet the dead timber prize. IV. Here let me, careless and unthoughtful lying. Hear...birds to both replying, Nor be myself, too, mute. v. A silver stream shall roll his waters near, Gilt with the sun-beams here and there, On whose enamell'd... | |
| Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 290 pages
...those fond artists does despise That can the fair and living trees neglect ; Yet the dead timber prize. Here let me, careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear...birds to both replying, Nor be myself, too, mute. .-.> A silver stream shall roll his waters near, Gilt with the sun-beams here and there ; On whose... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 pages
...those fond artists does despise That can the fair and living trees neglect ; Yet the dead timber prize. Here let me, careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear...birds to both replying, Nor be myself, too, mute. A silver stream shall roll his waters near, Gilt with the sun-beams here and there ; On whose enamel'd... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1809 - 914 pages
...prius aestimabit Arbore vivl?f • This 11 a transition of some beautiful lines in hit English poem OB Solitude. " Here let me careless and unthoughtful...me flying, With all their wanton boughs dispute." •f " Here Nature docs a houie for me erect, Mature, the wisest architect, Who those fond artists... | |
| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...fond artists does despise, That can the fair and living trees neglect ; Yet the dead timber prize. 4. Here let me, careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds, above me flying, With all their xvanton bougiis dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself, too, mute. 5.... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 490 pages
...those fond artists does despise That can the fair and living trees neglect; Yet the dead timber prize. Here let me, careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds, above me Hying, With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself,... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...the fair and living trees neglect; Yet the dead timber prize. Here let me, careless and unthonghtful lying, Hear the soft winds, above me flying, With all their wanton bonghs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself, too, mute. A silver stream... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...those fond artists does despiseThat can the fair and living trees neglect ; Yet the dead timber prize. Here let me, careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds, above me flying, « " O vita, misfire longa, felici brevis t" •Virg.Georg.ii, 489. YOU Til. With all their wanton... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...: Here let me, careless and unthoughtful, lying, Hear the soft winds about me flying, With all the wanton boughs dispute ; And the more tuneful birds to both replying : Nor be my own voice mute : Thou silver stream that roll'st thy waters near, Gilt with the sun-beams here and... | |
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