 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854
...succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With venial lives, that blossom but to die; These here disporting own the kindred...that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all lus manners reign ; Though poor, luxurious; though submissive, vain ; Though grave, yet trilling; zealous,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854
...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...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
...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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884
...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 - 648 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 kindred...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 - 447 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 - 648 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 kindred...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
...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 - 214 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... | |
 | 1887
...succession decks the varied yearWhatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die— These, here disporting, own the kindred...expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. In florid beauty groves and fields appear— Man seems the only growth that dwindles herfc. 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... 
