...clime the lonely herdsman, stretch'd On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lull'd his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness,...sounds Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fetch'd, E'en from the blazing chariot of the sun, A beardless youth, who touch'da golden lute, And...

...generations curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. 10. In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman stretched...summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose. EXERCISE 77. § 174. (1.) Make ten sentences with down, near, since, through, beyond, round, by, along,...

...the circumstances, it is no peculiarity. It has been common to all, from the Chaldean shepherds — " the lonely herdsman stretched on the soft grass through half a summer's day " — the solitary monk — to all whose impressions from without have had time to grow and vivify...

...clime the lonely herdsman, stretch'd On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lull'd his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness,...sounds Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fetch'd Even from the blazing chariot of the sun, A beardless youth, who touch'da golden lute, And...

...clime the lonely herdsman, stretch'd On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music luH'd his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When lib own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter than the sounds Which his...

...clime, the lonely herdsman, stretch'd On the soft grass through half a Summer's day, With music lull'd his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness,...sounds Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fetch'd. Even from the blazing chariot of the Sun, A beardless Youth, who touch'da golden lute, And...

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...possible 1 Cf. in Wordsworth's Excursion, book iv., p. 347 (1 vol. ed.) the passage commencing : — " In that fair clime the lonely herdsman, stretched...summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose," &c. And also Schiller, Die Gutter GricchenlaiuFs. pleasure and enjoyment. Their very ceremonies of...

...wea* To the unenlightened swains of Pagan Greece. In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretch' d On the soft grass, through half a summer's day, "With music lulled his indolent repose ; Ami, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain,...