| John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...lovely Spring " Comes daunting on; the primrose strewes her way, " And sattin violet." TODD. Ver. 3. The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip &c.] So Niccols, in the description just cited, of May. • " And from her fruitful lap eche day she... | |
| John Fitzgerald Pennie - 1827 - 672 pages
...the grove-embowered cottages of L . Aut! first, May -day, — that happy, happy anniversary, when " The bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowing May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose," was constantly... | |
| 1827 - 510 pages
...language. Milton thus exquisitely describes a May mornrng : Now the bright morning star, day's harhinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her preen lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth,... | |
| Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1828 - 414 pages
...the preservation he had experienced.* MAY^DAY. MAYING IJJ nENRY THE EIGHTH'S REIGN.— EVIL MAY DAY. Now the bright morning Star, day's harbinger, Comes...from the east, and leads with her The flowery May : — MILTON. May-Day, which in the " olden times," was consecrated both to the Goddess Flora, and... | |
| 1828 - 454 pages
...dancing from the east, and leads with her t'i The flo%very May, who from her green lap throws lf-j* The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire i •"• ', ' Mirth, and youth, and warm desire I .>'.•'.:' a, yM ,».'"* • . Woods and groves... | |
| Books - 1820 - 398 pages
...of his youthful years — the outpourings of his virgin fancies — the May of his intellect, which from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose: it is indeed pregnant with all the rank luxuriance of a rich and unturned soil. It displays prodigious... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 792 pages
...were, the burnishing of many studious and contemplative years, I here give you them to dispose of. Id, Day's harbinger Comes dancing from the East, and leads...lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Id. The nomination of persons to those places being so prime and inseparable a, /lower of his crown,... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...other, by several climates and degrees in their ways of thinking and conversing together — JUdison. MXLII. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger,...the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who frcm her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose; Hail ! bounteous May that dost... | |
| Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1829 - 416 pages
...the preservation he had experienced.* MAY-DAY. MAYING IN HENRY THE EIGHTH'S REIGN.— EVIL MAY DAY. Now the bright morning Star, day's harbinger, Comes...from the east, and leads with her The flowery May : — MILTON. May-Day, which in the " olden times," was consecrated both to the Goddess Flora, and... | |
| Henry Phillips - Botany - 1829 - 398 pages
...When fragrant orchards to the roseate morn Unfold their bloom, in heaven's own colours dyed. MlCILE. The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow Cowslip and the pale Primrose. MILTON. This is the time when the village children remind us of the ancient games of Flora— Now let... | |
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