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" How vainly men themselves amaze. To win the palm, the oak, or bays: And their incessant labors see Crowned from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all the flowers and trees do close,... "
Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern - Page 9769
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Retrospective Review, Volume 11

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1825 - 392 pages
...dignsp, numerari, et floribus, horse! The follbwing is Marvell's translation of thig Latin poem :— THE GARDEN. " How vainly men themselves amaze, To...win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...congeal'd and chill ; Congeal'd on earth ; but does, dissolving, run Into the glorys of th' almighty sun. { > E37 ݴ? \a z l0" So changed he his mete and his soupere. Ful many a fat partrich ha labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 11

Books - 1825 - 392 pages
...dignse numerari, et floribus, horse ! The following is Marvell's translation of this Latin poem:— THE GARDEN. " How vainly men themselves amaze, To...win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 11

Books - 1825 - 390 pages
...dignse numerari, et floribus, horse ! 1.84 The following is Marvell's translation of this Latin poem : THE GARDEN. "How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 11

Henry Southern - 1825 - 388 pages
...dignse numerari, et floribus, horse ! The following is Marvell's translation of this Latin poem : — THE GARDEN. " How vainly men themselves amaze, To...win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...eongeal'd and ehill ; t'ongeal'd on earth ; but does, dissolving, ran Into the glorys of th' almighty sun. : ބX \d i I\ 8&e _ C y Z H #5 + Ŷ8 .~ez M Ta + 9 Oߪ G { ineessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow verged shade Does...
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The Outlaw, Volume 1

Mrs. S. C. Hall - English fiction - 1835 - 222 pages
...their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree Whose short and narrow verged shad Does prudently their toils upbraid, While all the...and trees do close, To weave the garlands of Repose. ANDREW MARvELL. THE last month of spring was passing, and the warm breath and genial influence of summer...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1836 - 436 pages
...Drop of Dew ;" we shall here present onr readers with another poem, displaying equal ex celleuce : — THE GARDEN. How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...laid, Of purest alabaster made ; For I would have thine image be White as I can, though not as thee. THE GARDEN. How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays ; And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently...
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The poets of Yorkshire, commenced by W.C. Newsam; complete and publ. by J ...

William Cartwright Newsam - 1845 - 264 pages
...were the outpourings of a mind schooled in the ohstreperous din of political activity ? THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN. How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently...
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