| Isaac Weld - Killarney (Kerry, Ireland) - 1807 - 286 pages
...is generally admitted. The distance of KilcolmauAs if it had by Nature's cunning hand Benc choycely picked out from all the rest, And laid forth for ensample of the best. Towards Ross the shores of Innisfallen are low and shelving, and the water very shallow, as the numerous... | |
| Isaac Weld - Killarney, Lakes of - 1812 - 360 pages
...description of the island in the idle lake.* It was a chosen plott of fertile land Emongst wide waves sett, like a little nest ; As if it had by Nature's cunning hand Bene choycely picked out from all the rest, And laid forth for ensample of the best. Towards Ross,... | |
| 1816 - 36 pages
...hesitate for a moment in preferring the passages I have cited, to the two which you ' Have choycely picked out from all the rest, ' And laid forth for ensample of the best.' upon excellence, its dilated eyes gloar with gratuitous commendation upon mediocrity. But I remember,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...Into the land that lay them fair before, Whose pleasaunce she him shew'd, and plentiful great store. It was a chosen plot of fertile land, Amongst wide...little nest, As if it had by Nature's cunning hand And laid forth for^ensample of the best : No dainty flower or herb that grows on ground, Nor arboret... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 432 pages
...Into the land that lay them fair before, Whose pleasaunce she him shew'd, and plentiful great store. It was: a chosen plot of fertile land, Amongst wide waves set like a little nest, As if it had by Nature 's cunning hand Been choicely picked out from all the rest, And laid forth for ensample of the... | |
| 1821 - 504 pages
...pleasaunce she him shewed, and plentifull great store. It was a chosen plott of fertile land, Emongst wide waves set like a little nest, As if it had by Nature's cunning hand Bene choycely picked out from all the rest, And laid forth for ensample of the best : No dainty flowre... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...land, Emongst wide waves sett, like a litle nest, As if it had by natures cunning hand Bene choycely picked out from all the rest, And laid forth for ensample of the best: No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossomes drest And smelling... | |
| Samuel Hibbert - Folklore - 1822 - 670 pages
...superfluous waste of bare and tenantless scatholds. " It is a chosen plott of fertile land Amongst wild waves set, like a little nest As if it had by nature's cunning hand Bene choicely picked out from all the rest, And laid forth for ensample of the best : No dainty flowre... | |
| Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 408 pages
...a picture in Spenser's Fairy Queen: It was a chosen spot of fertile land, Emongst wide waves, sett like a little nest; As if it had, by Nature's cunning hand, Bene choycely picked out from all the rest, And laid forth for ensample of the best. No daintie floure,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...that lay them fan- before, [store. Whose pleasanee she him shew'd, and plentiful great It was a ehosen plot of fertile land. Amongst wide waves set like a little nest, As if it had by Nature's eunning hand Been ehoieely pieked out from all the rest, And laid forth for ensample of the best :... | |
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