 | Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall - Great Britain - 1894 - 930 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...bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. X^Jn florid beauty groves and fields appear, , Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1894 - 100 pages
...to die; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; 1 20 While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow...knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, I 25 Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign:... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1894 - 112 pages
...sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die : These, here disporting, own the kindred soil, 120 Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While...bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. 125 In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - American literature - 1899 - 672 pages
...die ; These, 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...nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear ; 125 Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign... | |
 | Poetry - 1901 - 106 pages
...These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil: 120 iVhile 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:... | |
 | 1901 - 488 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. Parse fully the words in italics. (It is not allowable to \ arse. instead of a word given, one substituted... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1902 - 80 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. 120 But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all this nation knows. In florid... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, Irish - 1903 - 482 pages
...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 I Contrasted faults through all his manners reign : Though poor, luxurious ; though submissive, vain... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1906 - 362 pages
...to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; no 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 ;... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...die, These, 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:... | |
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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... 
