 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 страници
...That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past, That shrunk5 thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use6 Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 248 страници
...wardrobe wear, When first the white-thorn blows; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. ***** * * * Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues, Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1846 - 514 страници
...and asserted ten years ago, "that the most accomplished prince in Europe was an Adonis of fifty!" " Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse !" I look out of my window and see that a shower has jus! fallen : the fields look green after it,... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 страници
...the door, Stands ready to smite once, & smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass'd, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use. Of shades, & wanton winds,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 страници
...distinguish between the flowers of Spring and the flowers of Summer. The " Sicilian Muse " is to " call the vales, and bid them hither cast their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues." There were not only to be cast the " quaint enamell'd eyes" of " vernal flowers," but " every flower... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 страници
...close, The wonted roar was up amidst the woods," kc. How exquisite is every image of this passage : " Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 страници
...desire. Hamlet, i. 2. Ham. The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns - Id., iii. I. Return Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return Sicilian Muse ' Lycidas.' 132. Go back to antique ages, if thine eyes The genuine mien and character would trace... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 264 страници
...encourage, in those lovely verses, the beautiful fictions of Paganism and Theocritus to come back : — " Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 268 страници
...lovely verses, the beautiful fictions of Paganism and Theocritus to come back : — " Return, Alphéus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ;...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1849 - 290 страници
...already familiar with it. It is the passage which contains that exquisite description of the flowers : " Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flo w'rcts of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds... | |
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Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 
