 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 páginas
...expand, To winnow fragrance rop;nd the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestow* ; And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid...appear ; Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. 1 Contrasted faults through all his manners reign, ., Though poor, Insurious ; though submissive, vain,... | |
 | 1826 - 300 páginas
...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 e'en in penance planning sins anew. All evils here contaminate the mind, That opulence departed leaves... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...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 e'en in penance planning sins anew: Alt evils here contaminate the mind, That opulence departed leaves... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, Ar.d sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty...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 - 1830 - 544 páginas
...planter's toil ; While sea-bom gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. er my sister has married the 'squire." "Howl" cried...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...planten 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...reign : Though poor, luxurious ; though submissive, vaic ; Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue : And even in penance planning sins anew. All... | |
 | 1830 - 592 páginas
...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... | |
 | Eli Geddings - 1835 - 476 páginas
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1836 - 140 páginas
...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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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;... 
