| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 páginas
...to die ; These, here disporting, own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; . In Winter awful thou ! with clouds and storms Around...darkness ! On the whirlwind's wing Riding sublime, thou vaia ; Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue ; And even in penance planning sins anew. All... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 páginas
...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...that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all this nation knows. In florid beauty proves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles... | |
| Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 370 páginas
...form no part of " the all things whatsoever " that you are required, by this verse, to do for them. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign*:...luxurious^; though submissive', vain*; Though grave', vet trifling*; zealous', yet untrue*; And e'en in penance, planning sins anew. But misery brought in... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 páginas
...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 hind. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows ; In... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 páginas
...die, There, here disporting, own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil : 120 While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow...knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, 125 Man seems the only growth that dwindles here ; Contrasted faults through all his manners reign,... | |
| Robert Pashley - 1852 - 494 páginas
...picture is this of the social condition of a wealthy agricultural region, unrivalled in its fertility ! In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here ! Again, it will be found, there is a striking contrast between the labouring agriculturist in England... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 páginas
...expression. " Where western gales eternally reside," is less felicitous, indeed, than Goldsmith's " Sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.1' But the contrast between the effect of the English and Italian climate is finely drawn. The... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 páginas
...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...luxurious; though submissive, vain; Though grave, yet trilling; zealous, yet untrue; And e'en in penance planning sins anew All evils here contaminate the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 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...that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all lus manners reign ; Though poor, luxurious; though submissive, vain ; Though grave, yet trilling; zealous,... | |
| John Forster - 1854 - 512 páginas
...is not wanting; and he always thoroughly discriminated the character of that country and its people. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And...appear — Man seems the only growth that dwindles here ! V ., CHAP. vJ TRAVELS. 75 Contrasted faults through all his manners reign : 1755. Though poor, luxurious... | |
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