 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1834 - 286 pages
...Smollet, the novelist, who has so sweetly sung the beauties of the Leven-side, in the lines — " On Leven banks, while free to rove And tune the rural pipe to love, 1 envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain." And at which there is a monument,... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1835 - 578 pages
...Smollet, the novelist, who has so sweetly sung the beauties of the Leven-side, in the lines — " On Leven banks, while free to rove And tune the rural pipe to love, 1 envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain." And at which there is a monument,... | |
 | Scottish tourist - 1836 - 498 pages
...branches off to Helensburgh by Cardross, up the Oareloch to Loch-Long side, and so on to Arrochar. •f- On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrent stains thy limpid source ; No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - 1836 - 436 pages
...clouds, inviting the approach of yours always, Cameron, August 28. MATT. BRAMBLE. ODE TO LEVEN WATER. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave M y youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No... | |
 | 1837 - 236 pages
...Dunbarton, has been -celebrated by Smollett in elegant verses. It is no longer, however, the ' * • Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrent stains thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its... | |
 | 1838 - 730 pages
...branches off to Helensburgh by Cardross, up the Gareloch to L«ch-Long side, and so on to Arrochar. •f On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod tli' Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk - 1838 - 742 pages
...best Monument, which seems to echo back, as it glides down its soft channels, his own sweet song. " On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave." At the... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam, Author of An introduction and index to general history - 1838 - 302 pages
...The pretty vale in the foreground is the scene of Smol let's beautiful ode : 'On Leven's banks when free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain.' In sailing up the Clyde, the most remarkable sight was the immense number of steam-boats... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk - 1838 - 746 pages
...while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain . Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave." At the outlet of Loch Lomond the steamer waited our arrival. We embarked, and were soon gliding up... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk - 1839 - 754 pages
...best monument, which seems to echo back, as it glides down its soft channels, his own sweet song. " On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest twain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs... | |
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ON Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave... 
