Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all... Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell - Página 2por Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 68 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 páginas
...kind could increase the sum of enjoyment. When we read those well-known lines of the Traveller, " Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And, placed on nigh above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear : Lakes, forests, cities,... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1824 - 570 páginas
...Century. By the Author of " Tales from Switzerland." * 12mo. 2 Vols. 10*. Boards. Westley. 1823. " E'en now where alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend." Goldsmith. * See Review for April last. We need not say how happy we should be to carry the resemblance... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 536 páginas
...balmy fragrance o'er the wild." Autumn, v. 202. Goldsmith very pathetically applies a similar image : " E'en now where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend, Like yon neglected shrub at random cast, That shades the steep, and sighs at every blast." Traveller.... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some 8ecting good, that mocks me with the view; That, like K y ] 5 x $ x ; w x Sies; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Ev'n now,... | |
| 1824 - 624 páginas
...kind could increase the sum of enjoyment. When we read those well-known lines of the Traveller, " Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour (o spend ; And, placed on high above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 páginas
...Impell'd with steps unccsaing to pursue Some fleeting good that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from...realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Ev'n now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And plac'd on high,... | |
| Art - 1825 - 408 páginas
...have no idea of hell present in our minds. Listen to Goldsmith's description of such a scene : " Ev'n now where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend, And, plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where a hundred realms appear : Lakes, forests,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 páginas
...Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good that mocks me with the view j That, like the circle bounding earth and skies*. Allures from far, yet as I follow flies ; Me fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. E'en now, where... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...steps uneeasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that moeks me with the view ; That, like the eirele ; U y fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Ev'n now, where... | |
| 1826 - 300 páginas
...Impell'd with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from...ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ;, And plac'd on high, above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear ; Lakes, forests,... | |
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