| 1805 - 948 pages
...murders Mcitcdicitic. From all mischances that may fright Your pleasing slumbers in the night : Mercy secure ye all, and keep The goblin from ye, while ye sleep." " Even in his amatory strains he has taken every opportunity of inserting imagery, drawn from similar... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1804 - 572 pages
...Murders Benedicitie, From all mischances that may fright Your pleasing slumbers in the night; Mercy secure ye all, and keep The Goblin from ye, while ye sleep. Even in his amatory strains he has taken every opportunity of inserting imagery, drawn from similar... | |
| Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1810 - 280 pages
...murder's benedicite ; From all mischances, that may fright Your pleasing slumbers in the night ! Mercy secure ye all ; and keep The goblin from ye, while ye sleep ! *This conceit, contained also in poem 11, is here still more beautifully touched upon .Besides the... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1823 - 330 pages
...scare-fires rest ye free, From murders Benedicitie ; From all mischances that may fright Your pleasing slumbers in the night ; Mercie secure ye all, and...keep ' The goblin from ye, while ye sleep. Past one aclock, and almost two, My masters all, " Good day to you." BASHFULNESSE. OF all our parts, the eyes... | |
| Robert Herrick - Elegiac poetry, English - 1825 - 334 pages
...scare-fires rest ye free, From murders Benedicitie ; From all mischances that may fright Your pleasing slumbers in the night ; Mercie secure ye all, and keep The goblin from ye, while ye sleep. Past one aclock, and almost two, My masters all, " Good day to you." BASHFULNESSE. OF all our parts, the eyes... | |
| Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 918 pages
...mischances that may fright Your pleasing slumbers in the night, Mercy secure ye all, and keep The goblins from ye while ye sleep. Past one o'clock, and almost two. My masters all, ' Good day to you!'" But, with or without a bell, the real prosaic watchman continued to make the same demand as his predecessors... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...murders Benedicite; From all mischances that may fright Your pleasing slumbers in the night, Mercy secure ye all, and keep The goblin from ye while ye...and almost, two, My masters all, good day to you! The description of a steer in one of his " Bucolics" is graphic and life-like. Ifce herdswoman is lamenting... | |
| Bevelled edge boards (Binding) - 1851 - 216 pages
...may fright Your pleasing slumbers in the night ; Mercy secure ye all, and keep The goblin from yc, while ye sleep. Past one o'clock, and almost two, My masters all, " Good day to you." • Alarms of fire. AN ODE ON THE BIRTH OF OUR SAVIOUR. IN numbers, and but these few, I sing thy Birth,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...murders Benedicite ; From all mischances that may fright Your pleasing slumbers in the night, Mercy secure ye all, and keep The goblin from ye while ye...o'clock, and almost- two, My masters all, good day to you ! The description of a steer in one of his " Bucolics" is graphic and life-like. The herdswoman is... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1852 - 744 pages
...murders Benedicite ; From all mischances that may fright Your pleasing slumbers in the night ; Mercy secure ye all, and keep The goblin from ye, while...and almost two, My masters all, " Good day to you." EPITAPH S. LXXIX. OPON A vIRGIN. Here a solemn fast we keep, While all beauty lies asleep, Hush'd be... | |
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