 | Richard Henry Dana - American literature - 1850 - 484 pages
...succession decks the varied year ; 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." What Gray says of Addison's versification, we are sorry to add, too well applies to Goldsmith's also,... | |
 | Henry Cockton - English fiction - 1850 - 444 pages
...succession decks the varied year ; 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." At these parlies Juliana was invariably present, and the WidowVappeals and references to her inspired... | |
 | Frederick Crowe - Baptists - 1850 - 652 pages
...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...succession decks the varied year — Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die — These here disporting own the...wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling hind. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows ; In... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...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 born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 392 pages
...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...soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid... | |
 | Robert Pashley - Poor - 1852 - 494 pages
...picture is this of the social condition of a wealthy agricultural region, unrivalled in its fertility ! In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here ! Again, it will be found, there is a striking contrast between the labouring agriculturist in England... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal hues, that blossom but to die, There, 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1853 - 600 pages
...expression. " Where western gales eternally reside," is less felicitous, indeed, than Goldsmith's " Sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.1' But the contrast between the effect of the English and Italian climate is finely drawn. The... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...bright succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With venial lives, that blossom but to die; These here disporting own the...that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all lus manners reign ; Though poor, luxurious; though submissive, vain ; Though grave, yet trilling; zealous,... | |
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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... 
