 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 sider
...But what were Useful, Necessary, Plain : Methinks 'tis Nauseous, and I'd ne'er endure The needless Pomp of Gaudy Furniture. A little Garden, Grateful to the Eye, And a Cool Rivulet run murm'ring by : On whose delicious Banks a stately Row Of Shady Limes, or Sycamores, shou'd grow : At... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 sider
...But what are useful, necessary, plain; 10 Methinks 't is nauseous, and I 'd ne'er endure The needless hy wit's great over-plus; But teach us yet 15 Wisely to husband it; Lest we that talent spend, And ha whose delicious banks a stately row 15 Of shady limes or sycamores should grow. At the end of which... | |
 | University of Calcutta. Department of Letters - 1928 - 394 sider
...fields on that a neighbouring wood... M cthinl<s 'tis nauseous ; and I'd ne'er endure The needless pomp of gaudy furniture. A little garden grateful to the eye, And a cool rivulet run murmuring by. Like Thomson and some later poets of the eighteenth century, he shows, along with his love of nature,... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 334 sider
...great; Better, if on a rising ground it stood; On this side fields, on that a neighbouring wood. And: A little garden, grateful to the eye; And a cool rivulet run murmuring by: On whose delicious banks a stately row Of shady limes, or sycamores, should grow. * The longing for a... | |
 | Ernest Edward Kellett - 1928 - 296 sider
...neither too small nor too large; not omitting the hortus, the iugis aquae fans, or thepaullum silvae: A little garden, grateful to the eye, And a cool rivulet run murmuring by, On whose delicious banks a stately row Of shady limes or sycamores should grow. Like Horace also, though... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 322 sider
...great; Better, if on a rising ground it stood; On this side fields, on that a neighbouring wood. And: A little garden, grateful to the eye; And a cool rivulet run murmuring by: On whose delicious banks a stately row Of shady limes, or sycamores, should grow. ' The longing for a... | |
 | John C. Shields - 2004 - 482 sider
...little from pastoral for his "private Seat," save what modicum there is of pastoral in these lines: A little Garden, grateful to the Eye, And a cool Rivulet run Murmuring by: On whose delicious Banks a stately Row Of shady Lymes, or Sycamores, shou'd grow. (791 ) One has to stretch... | |
 | 1901 - 394 sider
...middle of his furnishing to look out of his window again. This time he adds to the fields and the wood " A little garden, grateful to the eye, And a cool rivulet run murmuring by, On whose delicious banks a stately row Of shady limes, or sycamores, should grow." Feelingly we grant... | |
 | Ernest Edward Kellett - 1928 - 296 sider
...neither too small nor too large; not omitting the hortus, the iugis aquae fans, or thepaullum silvae: A little garden, grateful to the eye, And a cool rivulet run murmuring by, On whose delicious banks a stately row Of shady limes or sycamores should grow. Like Horace also, though... | |
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I'd have a private seat, Built uniform, not little, nor too great; Better if on a rising ground it stood ; On this side fields, on that a neighbouring wood. 
