 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...appreciate the man rather than the merit ; but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. 8. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign, Though poor, luxurious ; though submissive, vain, The student may now write a list of subjects in pain which can be presented in antithesis, and present... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 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 this nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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 this nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. , " you use me very ill, and I'll bear it no longer....do nothing but soak with the guests all day long : e'en in penance planning sins anew. All evils here contaminate the mind, That opulence departed leaves... | |
 | William Dobson - 1848 - 46 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...appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. GOLDSMITH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER -4. Into Greek Iambics. Jub. Syphax, I joy to meet thee thus alone ;... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...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. It is a hard struggle to return to England; but his steps are now bent that way. ' My skill in music,'... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 734 pages
...he always thoroughly discriminated the character of that country and its people. But small the Miss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all...appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. It is a hard struggle to return to England; but his steps are now bent that way. ' My skill in music,'... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1893 - 780 pages
...toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. Hut iver Goldsmith ; Mali seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reijjn :... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1894 - 100 pages
...toil; 1 20 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, I 25 Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign:... | |
 | Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall - Great Britain - 1894 - 930 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. X^Jn florid beauty groves and fields appear, , Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted... | |
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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;... 
