 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...beneath my head, WhUetfray'd my eyes o'erTowy's flood, Orer mead and over wood, From houfe to boufe, from hill to hill, Till Contemplation had her fill....leave his brooks and meads behind ; And groves and grottos, where I lay, And viftas {hooting beams of day. Wide and wider fpreads the vale, A- circles... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...From house to house, from hill to hill, 'Till Contemplation had her nil. About his chequer'd sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves and grottoes where 1 lay, • And vistoes (shooting beams of day : Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...beneath my head ; And strayM my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till contemplation had her fill. About his chequer'd sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves and grottos where I lay> And vistoes... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...beneath my head ; 'While stay'd my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead, and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, 'Till contemplation had her fill. About his chequer'd sides I wind And leave his brooks and meads behiadr And groves and grottoes where I lay, And vistoes... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...my head ; While stray 'd my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead, and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till contemplation had her fill. About his chequer'd sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves, and grottoes where I lay, And vistoes... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...my head. White stray'd my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead and over wood, l-'roin house to house, words like these the ciowd was satisfied : And so they would have been sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind ; And groves and grottos, where I lay, And vistas... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...beneath. my head; And stray'd my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till contemplation had her fill. About his chequer'd sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves, and grottoes where I lay, And vistas... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till contemplation had her fill. About his chequerM sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind. And groves and grottos where I lay, And vistoes shooting beams of day ; Wider and wider spreads the vale; As circles... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...beneath my head ; While stray'd my ayes o'er Towy's flsod, Over mead and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till Contemplation had her fill. About his chequer'd sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves, and grottoes where I lay, And vistas... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...beneath my head: And Btray'd my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till contemplation had her fill. About his chequer'd sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind. And groves and grottos where I lay, And vistoes... | |
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Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal ; The mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies... 
