 | Eli Geddings - 1835 - 476 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1836 - 140 lehte
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 lehte
...to show thee here 40 Could nature's bounty satisfy the breast, The sons of Italy were surely blest. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. Goldsmith. Traveller. With what superior skill we can abuse The gifts of Providence, and squander life.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 lehte
...to show thee here 40 Could nature's bounty satisfy the breast, The sons of Italy were surely blest. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. Goldsmith. Traveller. 41 Omai. With what superior skill we can abuse The gifts of Providence, and squander... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 lehte
...bright succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that no other than my landlord." — " Bless me," cried j While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small... | |
 | 1837 - 646 lehte
...Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine." The delicacy and elegance of the Italian landscape, where " Sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land." The well-known and most touching description of a peasant's love of his country : " And as a child,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 lehte
...succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the...bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. fin florid beauty groves and fields appear, \Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 lehte
...succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that ed this, which was received with the utmost avidity,...country ; and in this resolution, in the year 1736, Ami sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 lehte
...the Rule. EXERCISES. Masterly excellence . . is the fruit of genius . . combined with great industry. But small the bliss . . that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss . . is all that nation knows. Whilst some affect the sun, and some, the shade, Some . . flee the city, some, the... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 lehte
...both with our northern region :— " Whatever sweets salute the northern sky, With vernal lives, that blossom but to die, These, here disporting, own the...expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land." But this luxuriance of climate and of vegetation, is the sole advantage of boasted Italy. The dignity of... | |
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Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's... 
