| 1858 - 594 pages
...and, upon my honour, I prefer Loch Lomond to them all.' And so in his ' Ode to Leven Water :' — ' On Leven's banks while free to rove And tune the rural...happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain.' This was the re-awakened patriotism of the elderly Scot revisiting his native place after long absence.... | |
| Robert Blakey - 1858 - 228 pages
...and educated on its banks, in an ode which is justly considered one of the finest in our language. " 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 youthfid limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
| 1859 - 126 pages
...please, howe'er forlorn, That still they can recal those happier days. — WARTON. 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 My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
| Robert Blakey - 1859 - 224 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 ; No torrents strain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed With... | |
| Robert Blakey - 1860 - 228 pages
...and educated on its banks, in an ode which is justly considered one of the finest in our language. " 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; No torrents... | |
| English poets - 1862 - 622 pages
...bnt they show he could have excelled in verse if he had cultivated the talent. 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 My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
| 1863 - 416 pages
...far away in the interior of India, I heard accidentally Smollett's beautiful lines, beginning, — On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, repeated by a countryman. The effect was instantaneous, and reminded me of Humboldt's theory, that... | |
| 1864 - 142 pages
...hills the fragrant harvest grows, And spreads along the field in equal rows. GAY. 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 My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
| 1865 - 144 pages
...hills the fragrant harvest grows, And spreads along the field in equal rows. GAT. ODE TO LEVEN WATEK. 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 ; No torrents... | |
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