 | Elisabeth Luther Cary - 1898 - 412 Seiten
...men of the same nationality look out upon the same scenes and are moved by them. When Butler writes : "Where'er you tread, your foot shall set The primrose and the violet," and Tennyson follows with this in Maud : " From the meadow your walks have left so sweet That whenever... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 352 Seiten
...The Sun shall now no more dispense His own, but Harriet's influence. Where'er she treads, her feet shall set The primrose and the violet: All spices, perfumes, and sweet powders, Shall borrow from her breath their odours: Worlds shall depend upon her eye, And when she frowns upon them, die. And... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 384 Seiten
...The Sun shall now no more dispense His own, but Harriet's influence. Where'er she treads, her feet shall set The primrose and the violet : All spices, perfumes, and sweet powders, Shall borrow from her breath their odours : Worlds shall depend upon her eye, And when she frowns upon them, die. And... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 386 Seiten
...; The Sun shall now no more dispense His own, but Harriet's inBuence. Where'er she treads, her feet shall set The primrose and the violet : All spices, perfumes, and sweet powders, Shall borrow from her breath their odours : Worlds shall depend upon her eye, And when she frowns upon them, die. And... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1903 - 644 Seiten
...Venus. Cf. " A Dream of Fair Women," 263. 164 41, 42. Cf. Butler, Hudibras, Pt. II, Canto i, 571 : — " Where'er you tread, your foot shall set The primrose and the violet." 164 45. Acacia : the North American locust-tree, with sweet-scented white flowers, grown as an ornamental... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1904 - 574 Seiten
...But the ducing wo Kal. July. Where'er you tread, your feet shall set The primrose and the violet ; Nature her charter shall renew, And take all lives of things from you. Bowles. [The familiar original of the familiar idea is of course in Persius II. 38.] 3 This Pastoral... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1905 - 408 Seiten
...it brisk Champaign become; Where e'er you tread, your foot shall set The Primrose and the friolet; All Spices, Perfumes, and sweet Powders, Shall borrow from your breath their Odors; Nature her Charter shall renew, And take all lives of things from you ; The World depend upon... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - 2003 - 288 Seiten
...are something like Richardson's rewriting of Hudibras for Harriet, Where-e'er she treads, her feet shall set The primrose, and the violet: All spices, perfumes, and sweet powders, Shall borrow from her breath their odours. (Grandison, 1.71) 16 Byron wrote in Don Juan shortly after Persuasion was... | |
 | Richard Braverman - 1993 - 366 Seiten
...rhetoric instead, promising to turn poet and immortalize his love in verse if only she will capitulate: Nature her Charter shall renew, And take all lives...Only our loves, shall still survive, New worlds and nature to out-live; And, like the Heraulds Moons, remain All Crescents, without change or wane. (II.... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 366 Seiten
...The Sun shall now no more dispense His own, but Harriet's influence. Where'er she treads, her feet shall set The primrose and the violet: All spices, perfumes, and sweet powders, Shall borrow from her breath their odours : Worlds shall depend upon her eye, And when she frowns upon them, die. And... | |
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Where-e'er you tread, your foot shall set The primrose and the violet ; All spices, perfumes, and sweet powders, Shall borrow from your breath their odours ; Nature her charter shall renew, And take all lives of things from you ; The world depend upon... 
