| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 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...his manners reign : Though poor, luxurious; though submissive,vain; Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue ; And even in penance planning sins... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 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...bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. fin florid beauty groves and fields appear, \Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 páginas
...but to die; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; riends, but even of his country ; and in this resolution, in the year 1736, Ami sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 páginas
...the Rule. EXERCISES. Masterly excellence . . is the fruit of genius . . combined with great industry. But small the bliss . . that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss . . is all that nation knows. Whilst some affect the sun, and some, the shade, Some . . flee the city, some, the... | |
| Johnstone - 1840 - 386 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 fragrance round the smiling land." But this luxuriance of climate and of vegetation, is the sole advantage of boasted Italy. The dignity of... | |
| 1841 - 226 páginas
...to die : These here disporting, own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from their planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To...knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man M:CIIH the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults thro' all his manners reign ; Though poor,... | |
| Henry Stuart Foote - 1841 - 342 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 fragrance round the smiling land." But alas ! all sublunary hopes of permanent and unalloyed felicity are but illusory at last, and man, both... | |
| George Merriam - 1841 - 308 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 fragrance round the smiling land. 4. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows; And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 páginas
...but to die; These here disporting own the kindred sou, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smilmg land. But email the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is nil the nation knows.... | |
| 1842 - 712 páginas
...summer evenings are replete with the seeds of mortality. As in the smiling but malarial plains of Italy, "In florid beauty, groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here." "Death here," says Macculloch, 1842.] [Nov. speaking of malaria in Italy, " walks hand in hand with... | |
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