 Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind : Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows? In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain,...  The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life - Page 52by Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 240 lehteFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 568 lehte
...yells arise, The pensive exile, bending with his woe, To st"p too fen rf\d» and too f,iint to go, Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathise with mine.' The expression in the last of these lines is affected, aud a few more exceptions... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 lehte
...distressful yells arise, The pensive exile, bending with his woe, To stop too fearful, and too faint to go,' Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympatliise with mine. Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 lehte
...distressful yells arise, The pensive exile, bending with his woe, To stop too fearful, and too faint to go, Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathize with mine. To seek a good each government bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 lehte
...distressful yells rise ; The pensive exile, bending with his woe, To stop too fearful, and too faint to go, Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathize with mine. Goldsmith's Traveller Let us depart ! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 lehte
...yells arise, The pensive exile, bending with his woe, To stop too fearful, and too faint to go, Caste a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathize with uiine." The expression in the last of these lines is affected, and a few more exceptions could be found... | |
 | 1855 - 540 lehte
...yells arise, The pensive exile bending with his woe, To stop too fearful, and too faint to go, 420 Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathise with mine. Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1912 - 740 lehte
...letter xliii : "The leading idea of Charlotte's observation is beautifully expressed by Goldsmith : " Vain, very vain my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind. Traveller." and again, in letter xlix, "In this, as well as several other passages, the language is... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1912 - 742 lehte
...letter xliii : " The leading idea of Charlotte's observation is beautifully expressed by Goldsmith : " Vain, very vain my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind. Traveller." and again, in letter xlix, "In this, as well as several other passages, the language is... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 lehte
...poem, was to show that happiness is independent of climate, and hence to justify the conclusion : — " Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind." The Deserted Village (1770) also has a didactic aim, for which we care little.... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 lehte
...poem, was to show that happiness is independent of climate, and hence to justify the conclusion : — " Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind." The Deserted Village {1770) also has a didactic aim, for which we care little.... | |
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