 | Oxford city, Holywell music room - 1808 - 170 str.
...a sight) That they still were to run by her side Thro' swords, thro' seas, whither she would ride. Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have pluckt it ? Ha' you mark'd but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutch'd it ? Ha' you felt... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 str.
...the face; As alone there triumphs to the life, All the gain, all the good, of the elements' strife. Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude...have touch'd it •' Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow, Before the soul hath smutch'd it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver ? Or swan's-down... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 str.
...face; " As alone, there triumphs to the life, " All the gain, all the good, of the elements strife ! " Have you seen but a bright lily grow, " Before rude hands have touch' d it ? " Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow, " Before the soil hath smutch'd it Î " Have... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 472 str.
...taltus. WHAL. 4 Jfie//-torn'd.] ie rounded and polished as by the wheel. Have you seen but a bright Illy grow, Before rude hands have touch'd it ? Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutch'd it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver ? Or swan's down... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 str.
...through the face, As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good of the elements' strife. Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touch'd it ? Ha' you mark'd but the fall of the snow Before the soil hath smutch'd it ? Ha' you felt the wool... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 str.
...through the face, As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good of the elements' strife. Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touch'd it ? Ha' you mark'd but the fall of the snow Before the soil hath smutch'd it? Ha' you felt the wool of... | |
 | 1843 - 588 str.
...still were to run by her side, Through swords, through seas, whither she would ride. Well they might. Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have tonch'd it? Have you mark'd but the fall o' the snot* <t• 1 "iJ '•'. ••• Before the soil... | |
 | Sarney (major, fict. name.) - 1825 - 816 str.
...required on the occasion, was paid his wages, and wrung his hanks, as became him, in silence. CHAPTER VII. Have you seen but a bright lily grow. Before rude...hands have touch•d it ? Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow. Before the toil hath smulch'd it ? Have you felt the down of the beaver, Or swan's down... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - 1825 - 516 str.
...than the rose itself. Ben Jonson, to express the extreme loveliness of a beautiful woman, asks — " Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touched it?" " The lily, of all children of the spring The palest — fairest too where fair ones are."... | |
 | Thomas Lyle - 1827 - 272 str.
...through the face, As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good of the elements' strife. Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude...hands have touch'd it? Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutch'd it? Have you felt the wool of the beaver, Or swan's down... | |
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Or the nard in the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she! From... 
