 I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...  Essays - Page 215by William Butler Yeats - 1918 - 538 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1790 - 554 pages
...love.—• Re-enter PUCK. Haft thou the flower there ? Welcome, wanderer. Ob. I pray thee, give it me. I know a bank where * the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips ! and the nodding violet grows j Quite over-canopy'd with lufcious woodbine 9 , With fweet mufk-rofes, and with eglantine: There fleeps... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...world : Then how can it be (aid, I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me ? A Fairy Bank. I know a bank, where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet ^rows ; • Oolite over-canopied with lufcious woodbine, With fwect mulk-rofes, and with eglantine:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1798 - 408 pages
...Haft thou the flower there ? Welcomcj Wanderer. Puck . Ay, there it is. Ob. I pray thee, give it me. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows; Quite over-canopy'd with lufcious wood-bine, With fweot mufk-rofes, and with eglantine : There flecps... | |
 | John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 pages
...given by Dr. Farmer and Mr. Kenrick. I think Malone's remark is very just. . , P. 51.— 473.— 61. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows. I should like to hear Mr. Malone pronounce some of the lines which contain his dissyllables. P. 55.—... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 380 pages
...of Titania, is conceived in the perfect spirit of fairy beauty, and profuse in luxuriant sweetness. A bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine :_ * The names... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...of Titania, is conceived in the perfect spirit of fairy beauty, and profuse in luxuriant sweetness. A bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine: * The names... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1825 - 298 pages
...us. OX-EYE, the greater titmouse. Parus major, Linmeus. OXLIP, the greater cowslip. Sax. oxan-slippa. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violets grows. Shak. Mid. Night's Dream. OXTAR, OXTER, the arm pit. Sax. oxtan. Pegge, however, thinks... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - Dialect literature, English - 1825 - 296 pages
...OX-EYE, the greater titmouse. Parus major, Linnaeus. OXLIP, the greater cowslip. Sax. oxan-slippa. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violets grows. Shak. Mid. Night's Dream. OXTAR, OXTER, the arm pit. Sax. oxtan. Pegge, however, thinks... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - English language - 1829 - 368 pages
...Primula elatior. Sax. uxan-slippa. In the Midsummer Night's Dream, the place of Titania's repose is A bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. OXTAR, OXTER, the arm pit. Sax. oxtan. Pegge, however, thinks it should perhaps be written HOCKSTER,... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...hunger oft, or comelier clothes, Though pinch'd with cold, asks never. — Kate is craz'd. The Sofa. I KNOW a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk -roses, and with eglantine : There sleeps... | |
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