 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...well saine, Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. And thereto hath a troth as just, As had Penelope the fair ; For what...by writing sealed were : And virtues hath she many moe Than I with pen have skill to show. I could rehearse, if that I would, The whole effect of Nature's... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 476 pages
...writing sealed were : And vertues hath she many moe Than I with pen have skill to showe. I could reherse, if that I would, The whole effect of Nature's plaint, When she had lost the perfite mould, The like to whom she could not paint. With wringyng handes how she did cry ! And what... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. Vol. I. B And thereto hath a truth as just, As had Penelope the fair ; For what she saith,...by writing sealed were. And virtues hath she many moe Than I with pen nave skill to show. I could rehearse, if that I would, The whole effect of nature's... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 490 pages
...An Ode to Spring 455 An Ode w Wisdom ...... 4*5 '^wE^tfc^L** 8 LOUD SURREY. And thereto hath a truth as just, As had Penelope the fair; For what she saith,...by writing sealed were. And virtues hath she many moe Than I with pen have skill to show. I could rehearse, if that I would, The whole effect of nature's... | |
 | 1817 - 576 pages
...throughout ; that is, they do so apparently, and bear an internal evidence of such a fact : but the ' I could rehearse, if that I would, The whole effect of Nature's plaint, When she had lost the perfect mould, The like to whom she could not paint: With wringing hands, how she did cry, And what... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1824 - 488 pages
...wryting sealed were : And vertues hath she many moe Than I with pen have skill to showe. I could reherse, if that I would, The whole effect of NATURE'S plaint, When she had lost the perfite mould, The lyke to whom she could not paint. With wringyng handes how she did cry ! And what... | |
 | Henry Howard Earl of Surrey - 1831 - 280 pages
...well sayen, Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. And thereto hath a troth as just As had Penelope the fair ; For what...whole effect of Nature's plaint, When she had lost the perfect mould, The like to whom she could not paint : With wringing hands, how she did cry, And what... | |
 | James Bird - 1831 - 202 pages
...well sayne, Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. And thereto hath a troth as just As had Penelope the fair : For what...trust, As it by writing sealed were : And virtues has she many moe Than I with pen have skill to show. I could rehearse, if that I would, The whole effect... | |
 | Henry Howard (earl of Surrey.) - 1870 - 264 pages
...well say en, Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. And thereto hath a troth as just As had Penelope the fair ; For what she saith, ye may it trust, As it by writing scaled were : And virtues hath she many moo f Than I with pen have skill to show. I could rehearse,... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 pages
...The bot of you», I dare well taync, Than doth the »an the candle light. And thereto hath n troth an just As had Penelope the fair : For what she saith ye may it trust, AB it by writing scaVcd were : And virtues halb she many moe Than I with pen have skill tu show. 1... | |
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Or brightest day the darkest night. And thereto hath a troth as just As had Penelope the fair ; For what she saith, ye may it trust, As it by writing sealed were : And virtues hath she many mo' Than I with pen have skill to show. 
