 | Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 468 pages
...applied to Alaric. K (136) The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles, and tier golden fields : With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and skies of azure hue ; Scent the new fragrance of the opening rose, And quaff the pendant vintage as... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1835 - 324 pages
...dominions As oft have issued, host impelling host, The blue-eyed myriads of the Baltic coast ; — The prostrate south to the destroyer yields Her boasted...heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the blushing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows. Mason's Life of Gray, p. 196. wanting their... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1835 - 320 pages
...dominions As oft have issued, host impelling host, The blue-eyed myriads of the Baltic coast ; — The prostrate south to the destroyer yields Her boasted...heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the blushing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows. Mason's Life of Gray, p. 196. wanting their... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...wonder that Gray could have the heart to omit it," ayf Lord Byron in his Diary, February 27. 1821. f " With grim delight the brood of winter view " A brighter...new fragrance of the breathing rose, " And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows!" I was told by Sir Robert Peel that he was consulted by another eminent... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...land, whose curse has ever been " the fatal gift of beauty." How fine is the poet's description ! — " The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted...breathing rose, And quaff the pendant vintage as it grows. " The vine appears to be more fastidious with regard to temperature than to soil : it is almost equally... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1839 - 328 pages
...extensive dominions As oft have issued, host impelling host, The blue-eyed myriads of the Baltic coast ; The prostrate south to the destroyer yields Her boasted...heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the blushing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows. MASON'S Life of Gray, p. 196. wanting their... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1839 - 564 pages
...wine, as it is pressed out of the grapes." Gray, in one of his poems, has a similar allusion :— " Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendant vintage as it grows." The Hebrew tongue, it may be observed, is not very copious in its terms, and contains few, if any of... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1840 - 606 pages
...rolled away : As oft have issued host impelling host, The blue eyed myriads from the Baltic coast, The prostrate south to the destroyer yields Her boasted...delight the brood of winter view A brighter day and heaven of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the opening rose, And quaff the pendant vintage as... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1840 - 1078 pages
...wine, as it is pressed out of the grapes." Gray, in one of his poems, has a similar allusion : — " Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendant vintage as it grows." The Hebrew tongue, it may be observed, is not very copious in its terms, and contains few, if any of... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1840 - 606 pages
...rolled away : As oft have issued host impelling host, The blue eyed myriads from the Baltic coast, The prostrate south to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields. * Saussure, Voyage aux Alpes, iv, 172. With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day nnd... | |
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The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing... 
