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
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...the stimulus necessary for supplying our wants — if the wants are few the pleasures are few also. 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1845 - 276 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 smoldering fire, Unquench'd by want, unfann'd by strong desire ; Unfit for raptures, or, if raptures... | |
| English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...but few ; For 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 smouldering fire, Nor quenched by want, nor fanned by strong desire Unfit for raptures, or, if raptures... | |
| 1846 - 534 pages
...shine into it: they cannot be reduced to the fetters of type. Such was the case with Chatham and Fox. " Those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame — " must ever be the result of impulse — the spontaneous gleam of the fire within. But we do distinctly... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - Canada - 1846 - 614 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 finer joy." " An honest man,:' says Mr. Hume, (Inquiry concerning Morals, § ix.) "has the frequent satisfaction... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...are but few; For every want that stimulates the breast, Becomes a source of pleasure when redrcst; o the concert on the trees about ns. It was in this...seducer, and every object served to-recall her sadn clov, To till the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those ]x>wers thnt raise the soul to flame,... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1848 - 630 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 finer joy." " An honest man," says Hume, (Inquiry concerning Morals, $ ix.) "has the frequent ealisfaction of seeing... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...are but few : For every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest ; Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies,...fire, Unquench'd by want, unfann'd by strong desire ;t * [" And as a babe, when scaring sounds molest," ic.— First edit.] t "Their level life is but... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...are 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, unfaaned by strong desire ; Unfit for raptures, or, if raptures... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 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... | |
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