 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, . 1 sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle, and began, Wrapt in a pleasing fit of melancholy, To meditate my rural... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honey-suckle, and began, Wrapp'd in a pleasing fit of melancholy, To meditate my rural... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1823 - 434 pages
...sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine." In Cotnus, Milton speaks of it by its proper name : " I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove, And flaunting honeysuckle." And by the name of woodbine in his Paradise Lost: " Let us divide our labours,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 352 pages
...Passions; and by that noblest of all descriptive poets,—Thomson! " I sat me down," says Milton,— I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle, ;'iul Iiegan, Wrapt in a pleasing fit of mclaiidioly, To meditate my rural... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle, and began, Wrapt in a pleasing fit of melancholy, To meditate my rural... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...540 Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove 532. —this bottom glade,'} So Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, ed. 1596. Sweet Jattom-grasse, and high... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English literature - 1825 - 728 pages
...the glade.] " A bank O'er-canopied with lucious woodbine." Shakspeare's Mids.Night's Dream. " I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honey-suckle. Milton's Comus, 543.—WAKIFIELD. Ver. 19. How low, how little are the... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb 541 Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honey-suckle, and began, Wrapt in a pleasing fit of melancholy, To meditate my rural... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honey-suckle, and began, Wrapt in a pleasing fit of melancholy, To meditate my rural... | |
 | John Milton - 1827 - 518 pages
...flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle, and began, Wrapt in a pleasing fit of melancholy, To meditate my rural... | |
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This evening late, by then the chewing flocks 540 Had ta'en their fupper on the favoury herb Of knot-grafs dew-befprent, and were in fold, I fat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove 
