 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 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...his manners reign : Though poor, luxurious; though submissive,vain; Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue ; And even in penance planning sins... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, Ami auv pleasure to me equal to a refined conversation...for we have no occasion for it ; true wisdom is on trilling; zealous, yet untrue; And e'en in ]>cnance planning sins anew. All evils here contaminate... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 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. fin florid beauty groves and fields appear, \Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...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 - English essays - 1840 - 386 pages
...of harmonious expression, with which the Italian people are presented to the reader's view : — " But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And...Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue ; And, even in penance, planning sins anew." Here one may recognise that judgment and nice discrimination... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 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 even in penance planning sins anew. All evils here contaminate the mind, That opulence departed leaves... | |
 | George Merriam - Reader (Elementary) - 1841 - 308 pages
...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...Though grave, yet trifling; zealous, yet untrue ; And e'en in penance, planning sins anew. All evils here contaminate the mind, That opulence, departed,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 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 even in penance planning sins anew. All evils here contaminate the mind, That opulence departed leaves... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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 even in penance planning sins anew. All evils here contaminate the mind, That opulence departed leaves... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...fragrance round the smilmg land. But email the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is nil the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields...reign ; Though poor, luxurious; though submissive, vaini Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue ; And e'en in penance planning sins anew. All... | |
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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;... 
