| John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...has a peculiar propriety : it has certainly a happy effect. T. WAKTON. SONG • ON . MAY MORNING. . < Now the bright Morning-star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her • Ver. 1. Now the bright Morning-star, day's harbinger,] So Shakspeare, Mids. N. Dr. A. iii.-S. ult.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 560 pages
...earldoms of Rutland, Kent, and Huntingdon.' — Holinshed. 4 So in Milton's Song on May Morning : — ' who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.' 5 The seals of deeds were formerly impressed on slips or labels of parchment appendant to them. Yorh.... | |
| 1827 - 510 pages
...language. Milton thus exquisitely describes a May mornrng : Now the bright morning star, day's harhinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her preen lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth,... | |
| John Fitzgerald Pennie - 1827 - 672 pages
...cottages of L . Aut! first, May -day, — that happy, happy anniversary, when " The bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowing May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose," was constantly... | |
| 1828 - 454 pages
...poet wrote a song to May, as blithe and beautiful as the season used to be. You see the colour in her Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, . ...., Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her t'i The flo%very May, who from her green lap throws lf-j* The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.... | |
| Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1828 - 414 pages
...experienced.* MAY^DAY. MAYING IJJ nENRY THE EIGHTH'S REIGN.— EVIL MAY DAY. Now the bright morning Star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May : — MILTON. May-Day, which in the " olden times," was consecrated both to the Goddess Flora, and... | |
| Books - 1820 - 398 pages
...of his youthful years — the outpourings of his virgin fancies — the May of his intellect, which from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose: it is indeed pregnant with all the rank luxuriance of a rich and unturned soil. It displays prodigious... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 792 pages
...were, the burnishing of many studious and contemplative years, I here give you them to dispose of. Id, Day's harbinger Comes dancing from the East, and leads...lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Id. The nomination of persons to those places being so prime and inseparable a, /lower of his crown,... | |
| Henry Phillips - Botany - 1829 - 398 pages
...When fragrant orchards to the roseate morn Unfold their bloom, in heaven's own colours dyed. MlCILE. The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow Cowslip and the pale Primrose. MILTON. This is the time when the village children remind us of the ancient games of Flora— Now let... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...in their ways of thinking and conversing together — JUdison. MXLII. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who frcm her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose; Hail ! bounteous May that dost... | |
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