...his defence 'Gainst the Sun's scorching heat, who then began T" approach the point of the meridian : Within a little silent grove hard by, Upon a small...gave it being : — so sweet an air Would strike a syren mute and ravish her. He sees no creature that might cause the same, But he was sure that from...

...of which the reader will probably be sensible in perusing such lines of Chalkhill's as these — 1 And ever and anon he might well hear A sound of music...his ear, As the wind gave it being : so sweet an air Wonld strike a siren mate.' This relief, however, is used rather too liberally by the elder rhymists,...

...his defence 'Gainst the Sun's scorching heat, who then began T" approach the point of the meridian : Within a little silent grove hard by, Upon a small...chapel, richly gilt without, Beset with shady sycamores ahout: And ever and anon he might well hear A sound of music steal in at his ear As the wind gave it...

...search of his Clarinda : retreating into a forest for shelter " gainst the sun's scorching heat," " Within a little silent grove hard by, Upon a small...gave it being : — so sweet an air Would strike a syren mute. — * • * • * A hundred virgins there he might espy Prostrate before a marble deity,...

...search of his Clarinda : retreating into a forest for shelter " gainst the sun's scorchine; heat," " Within a little silent grove hard by, Upon a small...gave it being : — so sweet an air Would strike a syren mute. — ***** A hundred virgins there he might espy Prostrate before a marble deity, Which,...

...those happy plains." How beautifully versified is the opening of his picture of the Temple of Diana 1 " in fact, for the sufferings of a persecuted animal...yet it irks me, the poor dappled fools,— Being Syren mute and ravish her." Pourtraying the cell of an Enchantress, he says, " About the walls lascivious...

...following description of the Temple of Diana, is a picture as highly finished as any thing in modern art. Within a little silent grove hard by Upon a small...: And ever and anon he might well hear A sound of musick steal in at his ear As the wind gave it being : so sweet an air Would strike a syren mute and...

...following description of the Temple of Diana, is a picture as highly finished as any thing in modern art. Within a little silent grove hard by Upon a small...about: And ever and anon he might well hear A sound of musick steal in at his ear As the wind gave it being: so sweet an air Would strike a syren mute and...

...following description of the Temple of Diana, is a picture as highly finished as any thing in modern art. Within a little silent grove hard by Upon a small...: And ever and anon he might well hear A sound of musick steal in at his ear As the wind gave it being : so sweet an air Would strike a syren mute and...

...following description of the Temple of Diana, is a picture as highly finished as any thing in modern art. Within a little silent grove hard by Upon a small...A stately chapel, richly gilt without, Beset with shudy sycamores about : And ever and anon he might well hear A sound of musick steal in at his ear...