Yon flowery arbours, yonder alleys green, Our walk at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manuring, and require More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth : Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums, That lie bestrewn, unsightly... Diary and Letters: 1793-1812 - Page 41by Fanny Burney - 1846Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...walk at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manuring, and require More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth : Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums, 630 That lie bestrewn unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease; Mean while,... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...walk at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manuring, and require More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth. Those blossoms also, and...dropping gums, That lie bestrewn unsightly and unsmooth, 63 1 Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease ; Mean while, as Nature wills, Night bids us rest.... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...walk at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manuring, and require More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth : Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums, 639 That lie bestrown unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease ; Meanwhile,... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...walk at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scantmanuring, and require More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth; Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums, That lie bestrown, unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease ' Meanwhile, as nature... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...walk at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manuring, and require More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth : Those blossoms also,...dropping gums, That lie bestrewn unsightly and unsmooth, Go 1 Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease ; Mean while, as Nature v'ills, Night bids us rest.... | |
| 1810 - 482 pages
...branches over-grown, That mock our scant manuring, and require More bauds than ours to lop their wantoa growth : Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums,...bestrewn unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease; Mean while, as Nature wills, night bids us rest. To whom thus live, with... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...overgrown, That mock our scant manuring, and require • More hands than ours to lop their wanton growths Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums, That...bestrewn, unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease; Mean while, as Nature wills, night bids us rest." To whom thus Eve, wilh... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...walk at noon with branches overgrown^ That mock our scant manuring, and require More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth.' Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums, That lie bestrown, unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease. Meanwhile, as Nature... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...walk at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manurin-g, and require More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth.. Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums, That lie bestrown, unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease. Mean while, as Nature... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...walk at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manuring, and require More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth : Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums, 630 That tic bestrown, unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease; Meanwhile,... | |
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