 | William Dobson - 1848 - 46 pages
...sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's...appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. GOLDSMITH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER -4. Into Greek Iambics. Jub. Syphax, I joy to meet thee thus alone ;... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...is not wanting; and he always thoroughly discriminated the character of that country and its people. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And...appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. It is a hard struggle to return to England; but his steps are now bent that way. ' My skill in music,'... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 734 pages
...he always thoroughly discriminated the character of that country and its people. But small the Miss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all...appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. It is a hard struggle to return to England; but his steps are now bent that way. ' My skill in music,'... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...discriminated the character of that country and its people. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, Anil sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty...appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. It is a hard struggle to return to England; but his steps are now bent that way. ' My skill in music,'... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 1294 pages
...character of that country and its people. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sonsual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves...appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. It is a hard struggle to return to England; but his steps are now bent that way. ' My skill in music,'... | |
 | Abraham (the patriarch.) - 1848 - 466 pages
...the Caesars ? in the endless civil conflicts of the Peninsula ? or in the states of Italy ? where " In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems...only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults thro' all his manners reign ; Though poor, luxurious ; tho* submissive, vain ; Though grave, yet trifling... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...discriminated the character of that country and its people. f But small tbc bliss that sense alone bestows, 7 And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. ! In florid beauty groves and fields appear, \Maii seems the only growth that dwindles here. It is a hard struggle to return to England; but his... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1849 - 370 pages
...better powers are dwindled as it were into brushwood. We apply to you what a poet says of Italy ; " But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows." Here, then, is a complete inversion of the proper order : for man is an intellectual being, and an... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...to show thee here * " Could nature'* bounty satisfy the breast, The sons of Italy were surely blest. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows." Claldimilk. Tmalltr. \ Omai. With what superior skill we can abuse The gifts of Providence, and squander... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting, own the kindred soil, 15 Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While...bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. 20 In florid beauty groves and fields appear ; Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted... | |
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That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground ; Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the... 
