| Henry Cockton - English fiction - 1850 - 444 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...expand. To winnow fragrance round the smiling land." At these parlies Juliana was invariably present, and the WidowVappeals and references to her inspired... | |
| Richard Henry Dana - American literature - 1850 - 484 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...expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land." What Gray says of Addison's versification, we are sorry to add, too well applies to Goldsmith's also,... | |
| Frederick Crowe - Baptists - 1850 - 652 pages
...here disporting, own the kindred soil, JCor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil, While sea-l>orn gales their gelid wings expand. To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.", Abundant materials for exchange with other nations are afforded in cotton, coffee, sugar-cane, arrow-root,... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...sweets salute the northern sky With venial lives, that blossom but to die ; These, here disporting, own utumn unconfined, And spreads a common feast for all...darkness ! On the whirlwind's wing Riding sublime, thou vaia ; Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue ; And even in penance planning sins anew. All... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance...that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all this nation knows. In florid beauty proves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 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...wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling hind. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows ; In... | |
| George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...die, There, here disporting, own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil : 120 While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow...knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, 125 Man seems the only growth that dwindles here ; Contrasted faults through all his manners reign,... | |
| Robert Pashley - Poor - 1852 - 494 pages
...picture is this of the social condition of a wealthy agricultural region, unrivalled in its fertility ! In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here ! Again, it will be found, there is a striking contrast between the labouring agriculturist in England... | |
| Joseph Addison - English essays - 1853 - 600 pages
...expression. " Where western gales eternally reside," is less felicitous, indeed, than Goldsmith's " Sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.1' But the contrast between the effect of the English and Italian climate is finely drawn. The... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...sweets salute the northern sky With venial lives, that blossom but to die; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's...that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all lus manners reign ; Though poor, luxurious; though submissive, vain ; Though grave, yet trilling; zealous,... | |
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