 | John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence ? But beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had need... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; aaoar; Wait the great teacher death ; and liod adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, dragon-watch, with uninchanted eye, To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit From the rash hand of... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...of desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence ? But beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree 385 390 38 1 . He that has light... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence ? But Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had need... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herd*, And sits as safe as in the senate house ; 3'JO who would rob a hermit of his weeds. His few books or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs an v violence f But beaut v, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1822 - 452 pages
...Victoire. — Who was ever in love with you, or your virtues? — Stay till you are tried." CHAPTER XV. " But beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree, Laden with...blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon watch, with unencha.ited eve, To save her blossoms, or defend her fruit." — MILTOJT. THE trial was nearer than... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...let slip time, like a neglected rose, It withers on the stalk with languish'd head. Milton's Comut. Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold had need the guard Of dragon-watch with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms and defend her fruit From the rash hand of... | |
 | Christianity - 1825 - 628 pages
...herds, And sits as safe as in a senate house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few hooks, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his grey hairs any violence ? MILTON. ACCORDING to the present face of things in the Christian world, it seems not at all extravagant... | |
 | English drama - 1824 - 660 pages
...men and herds, •W siis as safe as in a senate house ; «I beautv, like the fair Hesperian tree, Wen with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon watch, with unenchanted eye, fosare her blossoms and defend her fruit from the rash hand of bold incontinence. E.Bro. IMy sister... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, 390 His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence? But beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree SSI. He that has light &c.] This... | |
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That musing meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish... 
