 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; hat rearms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...their luxury was doing good." In the succeeding passage, alluding to his wanderings, we find — " My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own." Prior, in lines written in Robe's Geography, says — " My destin'd miles I shall have gone, By Thames... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...find me turning back, still expecting ease every where but where I am." — The Bee, See vol. ip 18.] My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own/" Ev'n now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And, plac'd on high... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1837 - 534 pages
...• Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ;(4) That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; (3) (1) [" The farther I travel, I feel the pain of separation with stronger force; those ties that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 618 pages
...to pursue Some fleeting Rood, that mocks me with the view; That, like the circle bounding i arth ind skies. Allures from far, yet, as I follow flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, Ar.d find ro ipot of all the world my own." — TRAVFM.VH.] raise my compassion for their miseries,... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 pages
...or Venice, where the laws govern the poor and the rich govern the law." And again the simile — " like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet as I follow, flies," appears likewise in the novel: — " And though death, the only friend of the wretched, for a little... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 600 pages
...or Venice, where the laws govern the poor and the rich govern the law." And again the simile — " like the circle bounding earth and skies. Allures from far, yet as I follow, flies," appears likewise in the novel : — "And though death, the only friend of the wretched, for a little... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1837 - 614 pages
...and care: Impeird, 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, as I follow flics: My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, Ar.d find no spot of all the world my own." — TRAVKI.LEH.]... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...self-dependent pow'r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. PROM THE TRAVELLER. 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 an hundred realms appear . Lakes,... | |
 | English essays - 1837 - 728 pages
...passage is beautifully expanded by the poet, aud rendered more striking by its locality : — Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And placed on high, above the storm's career, Look downward, where a hundred realms appear. Speaking... | |
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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,... 
