 Too long, alas, my inexperienc'd youth, Misled by flattering Fortune's specious tale, Has left the rural reign of peace and truth, The huddling brook, cool cave, and whispering vale. Won to the world, a candidate for praise, Yet, let me boast, by no ignoble...  Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry - Стр. 11авторы: John Bell - 1789Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1763 - Страниц: 556
...the following ftanza : Too long, alas, my inexperienced youth Mifled by flattering Fortune's fpecious tale, Has left the rural reign of Peace and Truth, The huddling brook, cool cave, and whifpering vale. Now, Reader, I proceed to lay before thee my ftri&ures on the third and laft Elegy,... | |
 | William Mason - 1764 - Страниц: 280
...brook, cool cave, and wbifpering vale. Won to the world, a candidate for praift, Yet, let me boaft, by no ignoble art, Too oft the public ear has heard my layi, Too much its vain upplaufe has touch'd myheart; But NOTE. * See the Defcrtption of th« Genius... | |
 | William Mason - 1774 - Страниц: 316
...wayward ftep reclaim. Too long, alas, my inexperienc'd youth, ( Mifled by flattering Fortune's fpecious tale, Has left the rural reign of Peace, and Truth, The huddling brook, cool-cave, and whifpering vale. Won to the world, a candidate for praife, Yet, let me boaft, by no... | |
 | 1783 - Страниц: 294
...wayward fteps reclaim. Too long, alas ! my inexperienc'd youth, Milled by flatt'ring fortune's fpecious tale, Has left the rural reign of peace and truth, The huddling brook, cool cave, and whifp'ring vale. Won to the world, a candidate for praife, Yet, let me boaft, by no ignoble art, Too... | |
 | 1785 - Страниц: 320
...brook, and cave, and whifp'ring vale. Won to the world, a Candidate for praife, Yet, let me boafl, by no ignoble art. Too oft the public ear has heard my lays, Too much its vain applaufe has touch'd my heart : • Come from the bafe enchanter fet me free, While yet my foul its... | |
 | 1785 - Страниц: 304
...ringlets quaint, &c. Too long alas my inexperienc'd youth,' Mifled by flatt'ring fortune's fpecious tale, Has left the rural reign of peace and truth, The huddling brook, and cave, and whifp'ring vair. Won to the world, a candidate for prajfe, Yet, let me boaft, by no ignoble... | |
 | William Mason - 1796 - Страниц: 332
...brook, cool cave, and whifpering Vale, Won to the world, a candidate for praife, •Yet, let me boaft, by no ignoble art, Too oft the public ear has heard my lays, Too much its vain applaufe has touch'd my heart ; , But now, ere Cnftom binds his powerful chains, Come, from the bafe... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - Страниц: 530
...my wayward step reclaim. NOTE. * See the description of the Genius of the Wood, in MILTON'S Arcades. Too long, alas, my inexperienc'd youth, Misled by...has heard my lays, Too much its vain applause has touch 'd my heart ; But now, ere Custom binds his powerful chains, Come, from the base enchanter set... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - Страниц: 310
...portion of thy bliss unfold, From Folly's maze my wayward step reclaim. Too long, alas, my inexperienced youth, Misled by flattering Fortune's specious tale,...truth, The huddling brook, cool cave, and whispering Won to the world, a candidate for praise, [vale. Yet, let me boast, by no ignoble art, Too oft the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - Страниц: 650
...confessed with great truth and beauty in one of his elegies : — • Too long, alas, my inexperienced youth, Misled by flattering Fortune's specious tale,...Too much its vain applause has touch'd my heart.' He lived nearly forty years after these lines were written, and if it appeared that this long portion... | |
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