 That first excites desire, and then supplies. Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, \ Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame : Their level life...  The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 26by Oliver Goldsmith - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when redress'd. Whence from such landa each pleasing science flies, That first excites desire,...vibrate through the frame : Their level life is but a smouldering fire, Unqueneh'd by want, unfann'd by strong desire ; Unfit for raptures, or, if raptures... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...breast, Becomes a source of pleasure when red rest* Hence from such lands each pleasing science Hies, That first excites desire, and then supplies ; : Unknown...vibrate through the frame. Their level life is but a smouldering fire, Nor quench'd by want, nor fann'd by strong desire ; Unfit for raptures, or, if raptuies... | |
 | Popular literature - 1851 - 566 pages
...sacrifice; but as it is, I feel that I had rather die than consent to a marriage with him." CHAPTER VII. Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill...vibrate through the frame ; Their level life is but a smould'riug lire. GOLDSMITH. SILVERDALE and Pemberton were among the first to join the ladies in the... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - English literature - 1851 - 854 pages
...contained in the passage of the Traveller, of which the following couplet expresses the main object : " Unknown to them when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with fiuer joy." " An honest man," says Mr. Hume, (Inquiry concerning Morals, § ix.) " has the frequent... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...Becomes a source of pleasure when redressed : Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies, 215 That first excites desire and then supplies ; Unknown...Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame. 220 The level life is but a mouldering fire, Unquenched by want, unfanned by strong desire ; Unfit... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Cooking - 1852 - 152 pages
...neither wholesome nor agreeable. To solitary diners may be applied the fine lines of Goldsmith : — " Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy." Better, indeed, far better, to rank with the class described by Byron, which, by the way, may sometimes... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Calendar reform - 1852 - 298 pages
...its allies fancy and imagination, often indeed in conjunction with them, it is at hand, not merely " when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy," but to lighten and exhilarate the intervals of respite from strenuous exertion and profound thought.... | |
 | 1883 - 172 pages
...are but few; For every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when redress'd. Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies,...vibrate through the frame : Their level life is but a smouldering fire, Unquench'd by want, unfann'd by strong desire; Unfit for raptures, or, if raptures... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 784 pages
...are but few ; For every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when rcdrest; eir love to wear smouldering fire, Unquench'd by want, unfann'd by strong desire ; Unfit for raptures, or, if raptures... | |
 | Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan - 1884 - 320 pages
...but few ; For every want that stimulates the breast, Becomes a source of pleasure when redressed ; Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies,...vibrate through the frame ; Their level life is but a smouldering fire, Unquenched by want, unfanned by strong desire; Unfit for raptures, or, if raptures... | |
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