 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 lehte
...discriminated the character of that country and its people. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, Anil sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty...appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. It is a hard struggle to return to England; but his steps are now bent that way. ' My skill in music,'... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 1294 lehte
...character of that country and its people. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sonsual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves...appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. It is a hard struggle to return to England; but his steps are now bent that way. ' My skill in music,'... | |
 | Abraham (the patriarch.) - 1848 - 466 lehte
...the Caesars ? in the endless civil conflicts of the Peninsula ? or in the states of Italy ? where " In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems...only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults thro' all his manners reign ; Though poor, luxurious ; tho* submissive, vain ; Though grave, yet trifling... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 lehte
...discriminated the character of that country and its people. f But small tbc bliss that sense alone bestows, 7 And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. ! In florid beauty groves and fields appear, \Maii seems the only growth that dwindles here. It is a hard struggle to return to England; but his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 lehte
...to show thee here * " Could nature'* 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." Claldimilk. Tmalltr. \ Omai. With what superior skill we can abuse The gifts of Providence, and squander... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1849 - 370 lehte
...better powers are dwindled as it were into brushwood. We apply to you what a poet says of Italy ; " But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows." Here, then, is a complete inversion of the proper order : for man is an intellectual being, and an... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 lehte
...die ; These here disporting, own the kindred soil, 15 Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow...bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. 20 In florid beauty groves and fields appear ; Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted... | |
 | Henry Cockton - 1850 - 444 lehte
...but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand. To winnow fragrance round the smiling land." At these parlies Juliana was invariably present, and the WidowVappeals and references to her inspired... | |
 | Richard Henry Dana - 1850 - 484 lehte
...but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land." What Gray says of Addison's versification, we are sorry to add, too well applies to Goldsmith's also,... | |
 | Frederick Crowe - 1850 - 652 lehte
...here disporting, own the kindred soil, JCor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil, While sea-l>orn gales their gelid wings expand. To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.", Abundant materials for exchange with other nations are afforded in cotton, coffee, sugar-cane, arrow-root,... | |
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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... 
