 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1714 - 382 pages
...Homer's Odjfs. 7. Clofe to the Gates a fpacions Garden lies, From Storms defended and inclement Skies : Four Acres was th' allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclofure all around. Tall thrilling Trees confeft the fruitful Mold; The red'ning Apple ripens here... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1727 - 406 pages
...the fame Hand. CLofe to the Gates a fpacious Garden lies, From Storms defended and inclement Skies : Four Acres was th' allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclofure all around. Tall thriving Trees confeft the fruitful Mold ; The red'ning Apple ripens here... | |
 | Mr. Marshall (William) - 1803 - 460 pages
...his happy land ? POPE. ' Why, divested of harmonious Greek and be' witching poetry, it was a small orchard and ' vineyard, with some beds of herbs, and two ' fountains, that watered them, inclosed within a ' quickset hedge. The whole compass of this ' pompous garden inclosed—four acres.... | |
 | Homer - 1806 - 212 pages
...industrious arts. 166 Close to the gates a spacious garden lies, From storms defended and inclement skies. Four acres was th' allotted space of ground, Fenc'd with a green enclosure all around : 145 Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mould ; The red'ning apple ripens here to gold : Here... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 408 pages
...industrious arts. Close to the gates a spacious garden lies, From storms defended and inclement skies. Four acres was th' allotted space of ground, Fenc'd with a green enclosure all around ; 145 Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mold : The redd'ning apple ripens here to gold : Here... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 488 pages
...industrious arts. Close to the gates a spacious garden lies, From storms defended and inclement skies. Four acres was th' allotted space of ground, Fenc'd with a green inclosure all around. 145 Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mold; The reddening apple ripeus... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...Alciuons and his happy land?" Why, divested of harmonious Greek and bewitching poetry, it was n small orchard and vineyard, with some beds of herbs, and...watered them, enclosed within a quickset hedge. The »hole compass of this pompous garden enclosed — four acres : — " Four acres was th' allotted space... | |
 | Thomas Leybourn - 1817 - 442 pages
...by Mr. Pope. Close to the gates, a spacious garden lies, From storms defended, and inclement skies. Four acres was th' allotted space of ground ; Fenc'd with a green inclosure all around. Tall thriving tress confess'd the fruitful mould, And red'ning apples ripen here... | |
 | Homerus - 1818 - 434 pages
...industrious arts. Close to the gates a spacious garden lies, From storms defended and inclement skies. Four acres was th' allotted space of ground, Fenc'd with a green enclosure all around. 145 Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mould; The reddening apple ripens here to gold. Here... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 764 pages
...justly observes, after being divested of Homer's harmonious Greek and bewitching poetry, was a small orchard and vineyard, with some beds of herbs, and...two fountains that watered them, enclosed within a quickset-hedge, and its whole compass only four acres. Such was the rural magnificence which was in... | |
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The red'ning apple ripens here to gold. Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate glows, The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year. 
