 | Art - Beauty culture - 1825 - 408 pages
...have no idea of hell present in our minds. Listen to Goldsmith's description of such a scene : " Ev'n now where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend, And, plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where a hundred realms appear : Lakes,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...steps uneeasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that moeks me with the view ; That, like the eirele ; U y fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Ev'n now, where... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...and care ; Impell'd with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures...solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ;, And plac'd on high, above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear ; Lakes,... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 768 pages
...pointed out, but not the very spot where he lay ; O how unlike the place from whence they fell! MILTON. My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. GOLDSMITH. The site is the spot on which any thing stands or is situated ; it is more commonly applied... | |
 | 1829 - 298 pages
...removal from their own happy spot, — in search of " Some fleeting good that mocks US with the view, "That, like- the circle bounding earth and skies, " Allures from far, yet, as we follow, flies :" and communicating a lesson to the whole world, against engaging in emigration,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...and care ; Ixnpell'd with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures...solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And plac'd on high, above the storm's career, Look downward where a hundred realms appear ; Lakes,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; That, Uke the circle bounding earth and ekies, ; [6g a f $燲ҁ / D.C# YyH$( dW mXJ Ⱦl CK z l ] D< 00 K: fN oL ,; i 6# < 7 ; And placed on high above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear; Lakes,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...and care ; Impell'd with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view : That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures...realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend : And, plac'd on high,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...the circle bounding earth and skies, Allure« from far, yet, as I follow, flics ; My fortune lends r ~p* t = g .E 1X$ &;[ 0 ^ ? tz'ż Z 5K ھX _ Ev'n now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend : And placed on high... | |
 | David Booth - English language - 1831 - 366 pages
...and care; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me wkh the view; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures...realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. The Syntax of this passage connects the penult line with the first, " But my fortune leads me to traverse,"... | |
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But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet,... 
