Cast on the wildest of the Cyclad isles Where never human foot had marked the shore, These Ruffians left me — yet believe me, Areas, Such is the rooted love we bear mankind, All ruffians as they were, I never heard A sound so dismal as their parting... Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's sämmtliche Schriften - Page 393by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1854Full view - About this book
| John Walker - Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - 1811 - 638 pages
...heart yearned within him, and melted at parting with his comrades and all huroai society at once. " Yet believe me, Areas ; Such is the rooted love we...mankind, All ruffians as they were, I never heard A sound so dismal as their parting oars." THOMSON'S AGAMEMNON, so harshly, that they were in a much worse... | |
| 1811 - 644 pages
...him, and melted at parting with his comrades and all human society at once. Yet believe me, Arc^s ; Such is the rooted love we bear mankind, All ruffians as they were, I never heard A sound so dismal as their parting oars." THOMSON'S AGAMEMNON. The Cinque Ports was run on shore a few... | |
| Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1813 - 544 pages
...Agamemnon : Next night — a dreary night ! Cast on the wildest of the Cyclad's isles, Whi'ii. nrv..i human foot had marked the shore, These ruffians left...mankind, All ruffians as they were, I never heard A bound so dismal as their parting oars. ii thai brae and here, Martirt at it were. — P. 32. st. 42.... | |
| John Walker - 1814 - 638 pages
...heart yearned within Irim, and melted at parting with his comrades and all human society af once. " Yet believe me, Areas, Such is the rooted love we bear mankind, All ruffians'as they were, I never heard A sound so dismal as iheir parting oars." • THOMSON'S AGAMEMNON.... | |
| William Davis (bibliographer.) - Bibliography - 1814 - 146 pages
...him, and melted at parting with his comrades and all human society at Once. " Yet believe me, Arcat ; Such is the rooted love we bear mankind, All Ruffians as they we're. 1 never heard iflatfttod'sb dismal as'their parting oars"* i ' • v • 1*1 \ j THcJ Cinque Ports... | |
| William Davis (bibliographer.) - 1814 - 140 pages
...heart yearned within him, and melted at parting with hit comrades and all human society at once. " ' 'Yet believe me, Areas; Such is the rooted love we bear mankind, AH Ruffians a* they were, I never heard A sound so1 dismal as thefr parting oars"* i'iii.:,. ; The... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...out. § 53. Description of a Person left on a desert Island. THOMSON. NEXT night — a dreary night ! Cast on the wildest of the Cyclad Isles, Where never human foot had mark'd the shore. These ruffians left me. Beneath a shade I sat me down, more heavily oppress'd, More... | |
| Walter Scott - English poetry - 1821 - 546 pages
...Next night— a dreary night ! Cast on the wildest of the Cyclad's isles, Where never human foot bad marked the shore, These ruffians left me— yet believe...mankind, All ruffians as they were, I never heard A sound so dismal as their parting oars. Bates thai brae and here, Martin at it were. — P. 32. st.... | |
| Sophocles - 1823 - 228 pages
...eulogium on the joys of social life; in this seuse indeed the idea has been expanded by Thomson :— " Such is the rooted love we bear mankind, All ruffians as they were, 1 never heard A sound so dismal as their parting oars." AGAM. Act 3. But Le&sing gives two reasons... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 798 pages
...his heart yearned within him, and melted at parting with his comrades and all human society at once. Such is the rooted love we bear mankind, All ruffians as they are. Thomsuii. Left sole monarch of the island, with plenty of the necessaries of life, he found himself... | |
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