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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 26
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1809
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The United States Review and Literary Gazette, Volume 2

American periodicals - 1827 - 500 pages
...mountaineers, whom we resemble not a little in good and bad, it might be said by a like severe observer ; ' Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy. To fill the languid pause with finer joy.' ' In wild excess the vulgar breast takes fire. Till buried in debauch, the bliss expire.' " pp. 90—95....
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Discourses on Intemperance: Preached in the Church in Brattle Square, Boston ...

John Gorham Palfrey - Fast-day sermons - 1827 - 120 pages
...mountaineers, whom we resemble not a little in good and bad, it might be said by a like severe observer ; ' Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, ' To fill the languid pause with finer joy. * * * * ' In wild excess the vulgar breast takes fire, 'Till, buried in debauch, the bliss expire.'*...
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The United States Review and Literary Gazette, Volume 2

American periodicals - 1827 - 496 pages
...mountaineers, whom we resemble not a little in good and bad, it might be said by a like severe observer; ' Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy.' ' In wild excess the vulgar breast takes fire, Till buried in debauch, the bliss expire.' " pp. 90—95....
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pages
...gallant and enlightened people, entitled to a very high rank in the scale of European civilization : " Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy." Where particular circumstances, indeed, have given any encouragement, among rude tribes, to the pacific...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pages
...gallant and enlightened people, entitled to a very high rank in the scale of European civilization: " Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy." Where particular circumstances, indeed, have given any encouragement, among rude tribes, to the pacific...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...are but few; For every want that stimulates the breast, Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest; , and but little judgment; the«, 1 say, made choice...learning on his back. Shame 10 our ancestors ! many of smouldering fire, Unquench'd by want, unfann'd by strong desire; Unfit for raptures, or, if raptures...
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Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 18

1830 - 372 pages
...but few, Since every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest. Hence from such lands each pleasing science flies, That...vibrate through the frame ; Their level life is but a mould'ring fire, Nor quench'd by want, nor fann'd by strong desire ; Unfit for raptures, or if raptures...
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when represt : Whence from auch lands each pleasing science flies, That first excites...joy : Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flume, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame. Their level life is but a mould'ring fire,...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...are but few ; For every want that stimulates the breast, Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest. | 6+ Nf 5 Ԍ G~ 5 ^PH d J W G ԈT , 'V LaP 3 5 Ã [... u t FY ] # fc;!C; K#q` ^ 6 Q # a ? YO r.iise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame. Their level life is but...
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Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington ...

James Lackington - Booksellers and bookselling - 1830 - 472 pages
...but few, Since every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest. Hence from such lands each pleasing science flies, That...pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer ioy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame. Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the...
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