 Fierce tigers couch'd around, and loll'd their fawning tongues. " So, close in poplar shades, her children gone, The mother nightingale laments alone, Whose nest some prying churl had found, and thence By stealth convey'd th  The Works of Virgil - Page 139by Virgil - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 424 pages
...ftrains, And melancholy mufic fills the plains. Sad Orpheus thus his tedious hours employs, Averfe from Venus, and from nuptial joys. Alone he tempts...frozen floods, alone 750 Th' unhappy climes, where fpring was never known ; He mourn'd his wretched wife, in vain reftor'd, And Pluto's unavailing boon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1130 pages
...ftrains, And melancholy mufic fills the plains. Sad Orpheus thus his tedious hours employs, Averfe from Venus, and from nuptial joys. Alone he tempts the frozen floods, alone 750 Tn' unhappy climes, where fpring was never known ; He mourn'd his wretched wife, in vain reftor'd,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 366 pages
...ftrains, And melancholy mufic fills the plains. Sad Orpheus thus his tedious hours employs, Averfe from Venus, and from nuptial joys. Alone he tempts the frozen floods, alone 7 jeJ Th' unhappy climes, where fpring was never known ; He moum'd his wretched wife, in vain reftor'd,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...drains, And melancholy nrutic fills the plains. Sad Orpheus thus his tedious hours employs, Avcrfe from Venus, and from nuptial joys, Alone he tempts the frozen floods, alone Th' unhappy climes, whercipring was never known; He mourn'd his wretched wife, in vain reftor'd, And... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 658 pages
...mournful drains, And melancholy mufic nils the plains. Sad Orpheus thus his tedious hours employs. Averie ardens whol Th' unhappy climes, where fpring was never known; He mourn'd his wretched wife, in vain reftor'd, And... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 pages
...(trains, And melancholy mufic fills the plains. Sad Orpheus thus his tedious hours employs, • Averfe from Venus, and from nuptial joys, Alone he tempts the frozen floods, alone Th' unhappy climes, where fpring was never known; He mourn'd his wretched wife, in vain redor'd, And... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 328 pages
...stealth, convey'd th' unfeather'd innocence. 74J But she supplies the night with mournful strains ; k3 And melancholy music fills the plains. Sad Orpheus...nuptial joys. Alone he tempts the frozen floods, alone 75O Th' unhappy climes, where spring was never known : He mourn'd his wretched wife, in vain restor'd,... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 378 pages
...But she supplies the niglit with mournful strains, And melancholy music tills the plains. Sad Orphens thus his tedious hours employs, Averse from Venus,...never known; He mourn'd his wretched wife, in vain restorM, And Pluto's unavailing hoon deplor'd. The Thracian matrons — who the youth accus'd Of love... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...Whose nest some pryingchurl had found, and thence, By stealth, conveyed the unfcathered innocence, But she supplies the night with mournful strains;...nuptial joys. Alone he tempts the frozen floods, alone The unhappy climes, where spring was never known : He mourned his wretched wife, in vain restored,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 484 pages
...Whose nest some pry ing churl had found, and thence, By stealth, conveyed the unfeathered innocence. But she supplies the night with mournful strains ;...nuptial joys. Alone he tempts the frozen floods, alone The unhappy climes, where spring was never known : He mourned his wretched wife, in vain restored,... | |
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