...imitates Claudian with skill so exquisite : '-4s some tall eK^that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. lit altus Olympi Vertex; qui spatio ventos hiemesque...

...imitates Claudian with skill so exquisite : ' ds some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds arc spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Ut altus Olympi Vertex, qui spatio ventos hiemesque...

...smile. His ready smile a parent's warmth exprest, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares distrest ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given,...spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. , THE VILLAGE SCHOOLMASTER AND THE VILLAGE INN. BESIDE yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd...

...smile. His ready smile a parent's warmth exprest ; Their welfare pieas'd him, and their cares distrest ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given,...in heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Tho* round its breast the roiling clouds are...

...to endure, his spirit was above the things of earth, and partook of the light and joys of eternity. "As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form Clear...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." "Since I have worsted you in argument, let us jump at...

...gentle, and all whose " serious thoughts had rest in heaven," he follows with this splendid passage : " As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." The compliment here given to virtue, the tribute allowed here to goodness, is paralleled, perhaps, indeed,...

...Goldsmith had compared his Parish Priest ' To some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm ; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.' This is one of the most simple and sublime passages...

...or not, he has an inevitable eminence: As some tall cliff, that lifts its mighty form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. These lines of Goldsmith's I have long known and loved...

...warmth express'd, Their welfare pleas'd him and their cares distress'd; To them his heart, his loves, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts...spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. The tradition of Herbert lives on, though more eighteenthcentury country parsons may have been like James...

...His ready smile a parent's warmth express'd, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares distress'd; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given,...all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. . . As we do not pretend in this summary memoir to go into a criticism or analysis of any of Goldsmith's writings,...