...unmeaning commencement as this, would expect the delightful, unexaggerated, home-felt descriptions of O Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain 5 With innocence and meditation join'd In soft assemblage, listen to my song, natural scenery,...

...succeeded by the yet brighter broom ! " Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower I Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend I " There is no possibility, surely, of her not bringing...

...dropping cloud, While musió wakes around, veiled in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. 0 ay ; While the plain With innocence and meditation joined In soft assemblage, listen to my song, Which thy own...

...to that of a pun and happy kind. SPRING. , gentle SPRING ! ethereal Mildness ! come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With innocence and meditation join'd In soft assemblage, listen to my song, Which ihy own...

...the genders of Thomson's " Seasons " — " Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend ! " That picture is indistinctly and obscurely beautiful to the imagination, and there is not a syllable...

...the genders of Thomson's " Seasons " — " Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend ! " That picture is indistinctly and obscurely beautiful to the imagination, and there is not a syllable...

...opBosed to that of a pure and happy kind. COME, gentle SPRING, ethereal Mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a .hovvnr Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. O Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected...

...OF THE FIELD IN THAT SEASON, DESCRIBED. COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend ! And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts : His blasts...

...following fashion : — " Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon drooping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend." When the masters of the lyre are thus out of joint with the seasons, we need hardly be surprised that...

...salute the weleome day, SPRING— continued. Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. Thomson, Spring I. See where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts...