 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 500 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. /On florid beauty groves and fields appear, , Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish Literature (in English) - 1854 - 348 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...that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all this nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 512 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 ! V ., CHAP. vJ TRAVELS. 75 Contrasted faults through all his manners reign : 1755. Though poor, luxurious... | |
 | Anna Buckland - English literature - 1882 - 548 pages
...need of labour ; but though free from toil, he is sunk in ignorance and degradation, and while — " In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here." The Traveller turns to Switzerland, the land of republican equality, where the peasant — " Sees his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Fore-edge painting - 1859 - 592 pages
...swcets 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 toil : While sea-born pales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small tuc L..US thai... | |
 | World - 1884 - 560 pages
...sweets salute the northern iky With vernal lives that blossom but to die : These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's...all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and hills appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners... | |
 | Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan - 1884 - 320 pages
...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. In Horid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 554 pages
...editions. 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...knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, 125 Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign :... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 494 pages
...editions. 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...knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, 125 Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign :... | |
 | Susan Horner, Joanna B. Horner - Florence (Italy) - 1884 - 552 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. ' The Traveller. Beyond the Porta San Gallo a road to the right leads across a tract of land, called... | |
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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... 
