 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 500 lehte
...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...bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. /On florid beauty groves and fields appear, , Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 lehte
...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...that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all this nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 512 lehte
...is not wanting; and he always thoroughly discriminated the character of that country and its people. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And...appear — Man seems the only growth that dwindles here ! V ., CHAP. vJ TRAVELS. 75 Contrasted faults through all his manners reign : 1755. Though poor, luxurious... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 494 lehte
...rocks, &c. — First edition. * This and the following line are wanting in the first five editions. These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; 120 While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 554 lehte
...rocks, &c. — First edition. 1 This and the following line are wanting in the first five editions. These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; 120 While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 lehte
...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...alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation know,. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted... | |
 | James Stephen Jeans - 1885 - 480 lehte
...paid in the industries which it U designed to assist. CHAPTER XXVir. THE ACHILLES' HEEL OF ENGLAND. " In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems...dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reiLii ; Though poor, luxurious ; though submissive, vain." — GOLDSMITH. THE post-Homeric story which... | |
 | 1885 - 686 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...Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-horn gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 520 lehte
...rocks, &c. — First edition. 2 This and the following line are wanting in the first five editions. These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; 120 While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1887 - 254 lehte
...northern sky With vernal lives that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, 1 20 Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While...bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. 125 In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted... | |
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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... 
