| 1821 - 270 páginas
...follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Ev'n now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And, plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 314 páginas
...flies; B 3 My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Ev'n now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend; And plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 290 páginas
...flies; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. • E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend; And placed on high, above the storm's career, Look downward where a hundred realms appear;... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 páginas
...follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Ev'n now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And plac'd on high, above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear... | |
| 1822 - 592 páginas
...the past— still round thee glows and gleams. J. ' ( 22 ) I.ETTKKS OS A TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. Kv'n now where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend. GULDSHITU. WE arrived at Orbe, from Dijon, by way of Salins and Pontarlier — a road full... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 páginas
...hopes and pleasures fled ; And,'mid thy haunted loneliness, the mind LETTERS ON A TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. now where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend. GOLDSMITH. WE arrived at Orbe, from Dijon, by way of Salins and Pontarlier— a road full... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 páginas
...have been dwelt upon in a misanthropic and unsocial spirit. I have journeyed alone with pleasure, and have also had companions from whom I have grieved...Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And, placed on nigh above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear... | |
| Andrew Reid (of London.) - 1824 - 274 páginas
...ESTEEM AND RESPECT, THE AUTHOR LETTER I. MEDITATION ON THE TOP OF THE DOME OF ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And, placed on high above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...follow, Sies; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Ev'n ruins proud philosophy. For pale and trembling anger rushes in, to spend; And, plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear:... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 536 páginas
...fragrance o'er the wild." Autumn, v. 202. Goldsmith very pathetically applies a similar image : " E'en now where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend, Like yon neglected shrub at random cast, That shades the steep, and sighs at every blast."... | |
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