 | 1830 - 592 páginas
...climate and bright sunahine can bestow, a poetical Traveller has taught us to form a proper estimate. ' But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And...appear ; Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.' So the Poet sang of Italy : what had he said of Turkey and Egypt? Any regular analysis of the present... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...to die ; Theje here disporting, own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow...land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, Ar.d sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 páginas
...the sound of the last syllable in one line, to the sound of the last syllable in another; as, There sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. BLANK VERSE consists in poetical thoughts expressed in regular numbers, but without the correspondence... | |
 | Eli Geddings - 1835 - 476 páginas
...localities or soils will be healthy or unhealthy. Italy presents a melancholy example of this truth, where "In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here." The observations of Professor Dunglison on change of air, and on the influence of the seasons, contain... | |
 | 1836 - 140 páginas
...inhabitants of Sicily continue as Goldsmith has so justly described them : — " But short the bliss which sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the...appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here." CHAPTER V. IONIAN ISLES. IT was considered necessary that the English should take possession _of the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 páginas
...to show thee here 40 Could nature's bounty satisfy the breast, The sons of Italy were surely blest. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. Goldsmith. Traveller. 41 Omai. With what superior skill we can abuse The gifts of Providence, and squander... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 páginas
...to show thee here 40 Could nature's bounty satisfy the breast, The sons of Italy were surely blest. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. Goldsmith. Traveller. With what superior skill we can abuse The gifts of Providence, and squander life.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 páginas
...but to die; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow...though submissive, vain; Though grave, yet trifling; xealous, yet untrue; And e'en in penance planning sins anew. All evils here contaminate the mind, That... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 páginas
...but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow...here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign ; TJiough poor, luxurious ; though submissive, vain ; Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue... | |
 | 1837 - 646 páginas
...Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine." The delicacy and elegance of the Italian landscape, where " Sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land." The well-known and most touching description of a peasant's love of his country : " And as a child,... | |
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Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's... 
