| Robert Herrick - 1823 - 330 páginas
...DIVINATION BY A DAFFADILI,. WHEN a Daffadill I see Hanging down his head t'wards me, Guesse I may what I must be : First, I shall decline my head ; Secondly, I shall be dead ; Lastly, safely buryed. TO THE PAINTEB, TO DRAW HIM A PICTURE. And let it be thy pensil's strife To paint a bridgeroan... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1825 - 334 páginas
...DIVINATION BY A DAFFADILL. WHEN a Daffadill I see Hanging down his head t' wards me, Guesse I may what I must be : First, I shall decline my head ; Secondly, I shall be dead ; Lastly, safely buryed. TO THE PAINTER, TO DRAW HIM A PICTURE. COME, skilf'ull Lupo, now, and take Thy Bice, thy Umber,... | |
| 1828 - 514 páginas
...your hair ! MORAL OF A ROSE-LEAT. a daffadill I see, down his head t'wards mo, Guossc 1 may what I must be : First, I shall decline my head ; Secondly, I shall be dead ; Lastly, safely buried. — HERKICK. So sang a poet, whose writings bear all the ease and delicacy of " learned leisure," and... | |
| John Brand - 1842 - 306 páginas
..."Divination by a Dajfadill. When a Dafladill I see, Hanging down her head t'wards me, Guesse I may what I must be : First, I shall decline my head ; Secondly, I shall be dead; Lastly, safely buried." VULGAR ERRORS. " et quicquid Grecia mendax Andet in Historia." Juv. THE WANDERING JEW. THIS is a vulgar... | |
| 1893 - 846 páginas
...still ; but the fancy was fixed, for elsewhere, in his "Divination," he says : — When a daffodil I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may what I must be : First, I shall decline my head ; Secondly, I shall be dead ; Lastly, safely buried. For... | |
| John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849 - 520 páginas
...divination by a daffadill : ' When a daffadill I see, Hanging down her head t'warda me, Guesse I may what I must be : First, I shall decline my head ; Secondly, I shall be dead ; Lastly, safely buried." THE WANDERING JEW. THiS is a vulgar error of considerable antiquity. Dr. Percy tells us that it obtained... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 páginas
...DIVINATION BY A DAFFODIL. When a daffodil I see, Hanging down his head toward me, Guess I may what,I may be: # First, I shall decline my head, Secondly, I shall be dead; ^ Lastly, safely buried. The adorning the houses with evergreens seems then to have been as common as our own habit of decking... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 páginas
...DIVINATION BY A DAFFODIL. 1 When a daffodil I see, Hanging down his head toward me, Guess I may what I may be : First, I shall decline my head, Secondly, I shall be dead ; Lastly, safely buried. The adorning the houses with evergreens seems then to have been as common as our own habit of decking... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 páginas
...S. OSOOOD. DIVINATION. When a daffodil I see Hanging down his head toward me, Guess I may what I may be : First, I shall decline my head ; Secondly, I shall be dead ; Lastly, safely buried. ROBERT HBRRICK, 1591. GRASS. Is all grass ? Make you no distinction .' No ; all is grass ; or if you... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 páginas
...S. OSGOOD. DIVINATION. When a daffodil I see Hanging down his head toward me, Guess I may what I may be : First, I shall decline my head ; Secondly, I shall be dead ; Lastly, safely buried. ROEERT HKKRICK, 1591. GRASS. Is all grass ? Make you no distinction ? No ; all is grass ; or if you... | |
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