 Vain, very vain my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind. Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain,...  Child's Magazine - Page 431816Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...and too faint to go, Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathise with mine. Vain, very vain, my weary search to find...repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? In every government though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1841 - 312 pages
...arise, The pensive exile bending with his woe, To stop too fearful, and too faint to go, Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom...bliss which only centres in the mind : Why have I strayed from pleasure and repose, To seek a good, each government bestows ? In every government though... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1841 - 556 pages
...swerve from truth. — MILTON. The young stray from the path of rectitude to seek that of pleasure ; Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows 1 GOLDSMITH. TO DIGRESS, DEVIATE. Both In the original and the accepted eens?, these words express... | |
 | Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle - Canada - 1841 - 384 pages
...arise, The pensive exile, bending with his woe, To stop, too fearful, and too faint to go, Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathize with mine." But, alas I for those visions of vapour which haunt the imagination, I found at Thunder Bay, after... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...The pensive exile , bending with his woe , To stop too fearful , and too faint to go , Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom...repose, To seek a good each government bestows? In every government , though terrors reign , Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small ,... | |
 | Child rearing - 1844 - 332 pages
...be attended with consequences which will be felt forever. Hartland, Vt., May, 1814. FELICITY. VAIH, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind! How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...arise, The pensive exile, bending with his woe, To stop too fearful, and too faint to go, Costs a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathize with mine." The expression in the last of these lines is affected, and a few more exceptions could be found to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...arise, The pensive exile, bending with his woe, To stop too fearful, and too faint to go, Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom...repose, To seek a good each government bestows? In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1845 - 276 pages
...— The pensive exile, bending with his woe, To stop too fearful, and too faint to go, Casts a long look where England's glories shine. And bids his bosom...vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind. Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...shore, Till over-wrought, the general system feels Its motion stop, or frenzy fire the wheels. * * * Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind : Why have I strayed, from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? In every government, though... | |
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