 | Regina Maria Roche - 1825 - 324 Seiten
...but to die; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toili While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land." But human pleasure is liable to conT tinual interruptions. As the vessel was doubling Cape 'di Spartivento,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxurianee more Of Him who rules above; so was his fragranee round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...blossom but to die ; These, here disporting, own the kindred soil, Ñor ask luxuriance from the planten + vaic ; Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue : And even in penance planning sins anew. All... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 Seiten
...These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea-bom husband are you to have1!" "Sir," replied she, I am...a lord and a 'squire for two shillings! You fools, vainj Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue ¡ And e'en in penance planning sins anew. All... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; Theje here disporting, own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's...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... | |
 | 1830 - 592 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 Seiten
...salute the northern sky, 110 With vernal leaves, that blossom but to divínese here disporting, own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's...While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To .wmnow fragrance round the smiling land But small the bliss, thatsense alone bestowsAnd sensual bliss... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
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That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground ; 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... 
