 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1925 - 502 pages
...wine, or, worse, in war and wantonness. " Let them that list these pastimes still pursue, And on such pleasing fancies feed their fill, So I the fields and meadows green may view, And daily by fresh rivers walk at will, Among the daisies and the violets blue. Red hyacinth, and yellew... | |
 | Norman Ault - English poetry - 1928 - 566 pages
...down sink With eager bit of barb1e, bleak, or dace, And on the world and his Creator think, While they proud Thais painted sheet embrace. And with the fume...smoke, All quaffing round are ready for to choke. 432. Song generally ascribed to Fletcher. 434 For date, see Fleay. 486. For date, see Canib. 487. Variant... | |
 | Washington Irving - Fiction - 1983 - 1198 pages
...wine, or worse, in war or wantonness. Let them that will, these pastimes still pursue, And on such pleasing fancies feed their fill; So I the fields and meadows green may view And daily by fresh rivers walk at will, Among the daisies and the violets blue, Red hyacinth and yellow... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1858 - 786 pages
...wine, or worse, in war and wantonness. Let them that list, these pastimes still pursue, And on such pleasing fancies feed their fill ; So I the fields and meadows green may view, And daily by fresh rivers walk at will, Among the daisies and the violets blue, Red hyacinth and yellow... | |
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Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t" embrace, And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war and wantonness. Let them that list these pastimes still pursue, And on such pleasing fancies feed their fill ; So I the fields and... 
