 | English essays - 1848 - 744 pages
...fess, with every inclination to embrace the Merry London, my most kindly uurse, That to me gave tbis life's first native source, Though from another place I take my name, An haute of ancient fame, The house of ancient fame can surely poet's connection with Lancashire, I... | |
 | English poetry - 1788 - 510 pages
...lend Against their wedding-day, which was not long ; Sweet Thames ! run softly till I endmy song. n& At length they all to merry London came, To merry...kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native sourse, Though from another place I take my name, 130 An house of antient fame: There whilorae wont... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...lifenme, seems to have excited no inquiry into his parentage. He himself informs us, that he was born in merry London, my most kindly nurse. That to me gave...another place I take my name, A house of ancient fame. But though Spenser alludes repeatedly to his gentle birth, and claims kindred with several persons... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pages
...lifetime, seems to have excited no enquiry into his parentage. He himself informs us that he was born in tl Merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave...another place I take my name, A house of ancient fame." But although Spenser alludes repeatedly to his gentle birth, and claims kindred with several persons... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1838 - 1198 pages
...into his parentage. He himself informs us that he was born in ' Merry London, my moat kindly nnrae, That to me gave this life's first native source, Though from another place 1 take my name, A' house of ancient fame." But although Spenser alludes repeatedly to his gentle birth,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1841 - 464 pages
...lifetine, seems to have excited no inquiry into his parentage. He himself informs us that he was born in " Merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave...another place I take my name, A house of ancient fame." But although Spenser alludes repeatedly to his gentle birth, and claims kindred with several persons... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...Chaucer, a native of London, and like him, also, he has recorded the circumstance in his poetry : — stamp'd an image of himself, a sov'reign of the world....crowd admire the lofty sound; A present deity, they паше, An house of ancient fame. Protlialamiun. He was born at East Smithfield, near the Tower,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...says in his ' Prothalamion,' or poem on the marriages of the two daughters of the Earl of Worcester, At length they all to merry London came, To merry...life's first native source, Though from another place 1 take my name, An house of ancient fume. It is commonly said, on the authority of Oldys, that he was... | |
 | 1845 - 410 pages
...veree, on the marriages of the Ladies Elizabeth and Katherine Somerset — in which his words are, — " merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source." The tradition is, that he drew his first breath in the district of East Smithfield, near the Tower.... | |
 | Authors - 1845 - 762 pages
...verse, on the marriages of the Ladies Elizabeth and Katherine Somerset — in which his words are, — " merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source." The tradition is, that he drew his first breath in the district of East Smithfield, near the Tower.... | |
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At length they all to merry London came, To merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source, Though from another place I take my name, An house of ancient fame. There when they came, whereas those bricky towers The... 
