 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...peculiar to their nation, have generally invested it with this character. Thus Milton says, — •' And every shepherd tells his tale. Under the hawthorn in the dale." And Shakspeare, in " Henry the Sixth:" — " Gives not a hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds... | |
 | 1837 - 536 pages
...hand Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale." The United States, in the immense magnitude and fertility of their domain, embracing a great variety... | |
 | Serial publications - 1837 - 552 pages
...hand Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale." The United States, in the immense magnitude and fertility of their domain, embracing a great variety... | |
 | Book - 1837 - 232 pages
...forth ; we know that lively season When the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale." The famous Glastonbury Thorn has been the theme of many a marvellous tale. On the south-west side of... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...8, ed. 1640. ' rouse the morne, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, 65 And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures ; 70 Russet lawns,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 788 pages
...know that lively season,— 3K 4 1 When the milkmaid lingcth blylhe, Anil the mower whcU his scythe. And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale ;' and with these, ami a thousand such associations as these, we cannot but feel emotions of no ordinary... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...Whistles o'er the furrowM land, And the milk-maid singing blythe, And the mower whets his scythe ; And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale." Example 2. The Penseroso presents the following account of the objects of the evening. i " Oft on a... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1839 - 476 pages
...beholds ; — The great sun puts on his amber light, the mower whets his scythe, the milk maid sings, "And every shepherd tells his tale "Under the hawthorn in the dale. But the man of a melancholy disposition, IL PENSEROSO,. chooses the evening for his walk, as most suitable... | |
 | William Hone - 1839 - 874 pages
...hand. Whistles o'er the furrovt'd land, And the milkmaid singelh blithe, And the mower whets his sithe. And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures . Husset lawns,... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...rnusicke of the horne.' Warton. And the milkmaid singeth blithe, 65 And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures ; 70 Russet lawns,... | |
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Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every... 
