 | 1809 - 402 pages
...wuigs expand, To winnow fragrance round tbe smiling land. But small the bliss that sense aloue bestow*, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid...that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all hi* manners r«ign : Tho' poor, luxurious ; tho' submissive, vain ; Tbo' grave, yet trifling •, zealous,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beanty, groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted fanlts thro'... | |
 | Francis Collins - Mediterranean Region - 1809 - 354 pages
...121 " These here disporting own the kindred soil, " Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; " In florid beauty groves and fields appear, " Man seems the only growth that dwindles here ; " But small the bliss which sense alone bestows, " And sensual bliss is what the nation knows; "... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...expand, To winuow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestow*, Ami 'd, admits the gorgeous train; tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing Mm it-tins the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through nil his manners reign: Tho'... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...toil; While While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling. land! But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And...Though grave, yet trifling; zealous, yet untrue;, And e'en in penance planning sins anew. All evils here contaminate the mind, That opulence departed leaves... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand" To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And...fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles Bere. Contrasted faults through all his manners rcigit ; Though poor.luxurious; though submissive,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...small the hliss that sense alone hestows, And sensnal hliss is all the nation knows. In florid heanty groves and fields appear: Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted fanlts throngh all his manners reign ; Thongh poor, lnxnrions; thongh snhmissive, vain. Thongh grave,... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...toil J While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land/ . But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And...knows. In florid beauty, groves and fields appear, Man seqnis the only growth that dwindles here ; Contrasted faults thro' all his' manners reign ; Tho' poor,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And...Though grave, yet trifling; zealous, yet untrue; And aven in penance planning sins anew. All evils here contaminate the mind, That opulence departed leaves... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...planter's toil: While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And...luxurious; though submissive, vain; Though grave, yet triffling; zealots, yet untrue; And e'en in penance planning sins anew. All evils here contaminate... | |
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But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign; Though poor, luxurious;... 
