Enchanting vale! beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! O vale of bliss! O softly swelling hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. The Saturday Magazine - Page 1991841Full view - About this book
| Andrew Dickinson - France - 1856 - 234 pages
...Pope implore The healing God ; to royal Hampton's pile, To Clermont's terraced height, and Esher's groves, Where in the sweetest solitude, embraced By...Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! O vale of bliss ! 0 softly-swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of... | |
| James Thomson - Seasons in literature - 1856 - 344 pages
...though somewhat indistinct descriptions of ' Windsor Forest.' " To Clermont's terraced height, and EshcS Where in the sweetest solitude, embraced By the soft...Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, 1435 And joys to see the wonders of... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...Pope implore The healing God ;:l to royal Hampton's pile, To Clermont's terraced height, and Esher's P g h i 1 whato'or the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! 0 vale of bliss ! 0 softly-swelling hills ! On which... | |
| James Thomson - Seasons in literature - 1856 - 346 pages
...miles SW of London. This palace was originally built by CarTo Clermont's terraced height, and Esher's groves, Where in the sweetest solitude, embraced By the soft windings of the silent Mole, 1430 From courts and senates Pelham finds repose. Enchanting vale ! beyond whate'er the Muse Has of... | |
| James Walter Wall - Europe - 1856 - 336 pages
...Twickenham's bowers ; to -royal Hampton's pile, To Claremont's terraced heights, and Esher's groves. * Enchanting vale! beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia, or Hesperia sung." . Richmond too, has historic memories reaching back to ' olden time. It was a royal residence from... | |
| Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1857 - 226 pages
...pile, To Clermont's terrac'd height, and Esher's groves j Where in the sweetest solitude, embrac'd By the soft, windings of the silent mole, From courts...Pelham finds repose. Enchanting vale ! beyond whate'er t Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! 0 vale of bliss ! O softly-swelling hills ! On which the Power of... | |
| Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 pages
...Nature vie for Pelham's love."—Pope. " Esher's groves, Where, in the sweetest solitude, embrae'd By the soft windings of the silent Mole, From courts and senates Pelham finds repose."—Thomson. CUNNINGHAM. 1 Woburn Farm, " a dainty whim," as Lord Bath calls it, near Chertsey,... | |
| James Thomson - 1858 - 458 pages
...— The healing God ;} to royal Hampton's pile, To Clermont's terraced height, and Esher's grovei, Where in the sweetest solitude, embraced By the soft windings of the silent Mole, 1430 From courts and senates Pelham finds repose. * The old name of Richmond, signifying, in Saxon,... | |
| T P Grinsted - Great Britain - 1859 - 342 pages
...implore The healing god — to royal Hampton's pile, To Claremont's terraced height, and Esher's groves. Enchanting vale ! beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung. 0 vale of bliss ! 0 softly swelling hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see... | |
| 1860 - 634 pages
...afterwards incorporated into the house erected under the superintendence of Kent, in — ' Esher's groves, Where in the sweetest solitude, embraced By the soft windings of the gentle Mole, From courts and senate, Pelham found repose.' Horace Walpole, Kent's great admirer, was... | |
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