| William Cowper - 1800 - 438 pages
...list'ning ear, Groves, heaths, and smoking villages, remote. Scenes must be beautiful, which, daily view'd, Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. .Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the... | |
| William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pages
...list'ning ear, Groves, heaths, and smoking villages, remote. Scenes must be beautiful, which, daily view'd, Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the... | |
| 1802 - 302 pages
...ear, 175 Groves, heaths, and smoking villages, remote. Scenes must be beautiful which, daily view'd, Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of year*. Praise justly due to those that I describe. 180 Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate... | |
| 1894 - 576 pages
...lanes and thick hedgerows, with the tall elm trees springing out of them. ' Scenes must he beautiful which, daily viewed, Please daily, and whose novelty...survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.' * It is not that the novelty survives, but that the ' sweet ' monotony ' never palls. No true love... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1803 - 572 pages
...writer; those places which drew from him the following just sentiment: " Scenes must be beautiful, which daily viewed Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years."He adds, what we who have not unfrequently viewed the same spots ackuowlege to be perfectly... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pages
...undulates upon the listening ear, Groves, heaths, and smoking villages, remote. Scenes must be beautiful, which daily viewed Please daily, and whose novelty...survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...list'ning ear, Groves, heaths, and smoking villages, remote. Scenes must be beantiful, which daily view'd Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds. Exhilarate the... | |
| William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...Groves, heaths, and smoking villages, remote. Scenes must be beautiful, which, daily view'd .-•' Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. • Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate... | |
| William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...list'ning ear, Grovss, heaths, and smoking villages, remote. Scenes must be beautiful, which daily view'd Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. Praise justly due to those that I describe. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1815 - 624 pages
...for, in the words of Cowper, on his beloved walks, — Scenes must be beautiful, which, daily vicwed, Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge, and the scrutiny of years — Praise justly due to those that I describe. Some allowance, however, we grant for local attachment,... | |
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