 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 382 oldal
...day; and yours, and yours, That wear upon your virgin branches yet Your maidenhood's growing :—O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - 1838 - 326 oldal
...the sun, And with him rises weeping; * * * * * * daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim,...Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength." A hunting squire would by no means despise the... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 oldal
...middle age. 13—iv. 3. 73 O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall Prom Dis's* wagon! daffodils, That come before the swallow...Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength; The crown-imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce... | |
 | Sir Charles Augustus Murray - 1839 - 506 oldal
...that " sleeping fragrance from the ground" which her elder sister April ought to have awakened; the " Violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath," were peeping from every tangled corner in the dell; buds and blossoms of various shrubs and trees,... | |
 | Ellen Wallace - 1840 - 954 oldal
...and take The winds of March with beauty : Miss Denham, in self-defence, continued the passage: — " Violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath. I need not allude to the well-known mention of The sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets,... | |
 | George Field - 1841 - 458 oldal
...succeed flowers of pale yellow and orange hues:— " Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim,...Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength." SHAKSPERK. Then follows, in fullest glow, the... | |
 | Henry Alford - 1841 - 272 oldal
...lest he in playing Should miss thy skill, and be adjudged thy second. CHAPTER XIII. THE ANTHOLOGY. 0 Proserpina, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty : violets,... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1841 - 300 oldal
...and yours," she continues, as she addresses those of a more advanced age ; and in her invocation " O Proserpina For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon "— she retains the same order, beginning with the daffodil, and ending with the fleur-de-lis... | |
 | Lucy Hooper - 1842 - 304 oldal
...purple and with gold Richly adorn'd, — And that which creeps pale-colour'd on the ground. COLUMELLA. Violets, dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath. the trembling Violet, which eyes WINTER'S TALE. The sun but once, and unrepining dies. And Violets,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1828 - 782 oldal
...and embroidered too by all flowers that love the shade. " Pale primroses that die unmarried—violets dim, but sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, or Cytherea's breath." Anemonies, with their fair downcast heads, and starry clusters of Forget-me-not, less darkly, brightly... | |
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Proserpina, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath; pale... 
