 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 páginas
...valley's pride, Why think we these less pleasing to behold, Than dreary deserts, if they lead to gold ? " Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, " When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" O cease, my fears !" — all frantic as I go, When thought creates unnumber'd scenes of woe, What... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 296 páginas
...They tempt no deserts, and no griefs they find : Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. ' Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, ' When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way ?' ' O hapless youth ! — for she thy love hath won — The tender Zara will be most undone ! Big... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...desperate sorrow wild, th' affrighted man Thrice sigh'd, thrice struck his breast, andlh^ began ; • dwells : A ?tar his dwelling pointed out below : Say, ye, who guide the wilder'd in BIV •way! When fails this cruse, his unrelenting rap '. Soon shall this scrip its precious luad resipi... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 páginas
...scours the groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his train : Before them Death with shriek? directs their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads...luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz' walls 1 bent my way ! " At that dead hour the silent asp shall creep, If aught of rest I find, upon my sleep... | |
 | Poetical narratives - 1810 - 330 páginas
...valley's pride, Why think we these less pleasing to behold Than dreary deserts, if they lead to gold ! ' Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day> ' When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !' ' O cease, my fears ! — all frantic as. I go, When thought creates unnumber'd scenes of woe, What... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 páginas
...Night, By hunger rous'd, he scours the groaning plain, flaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his train: Before them Death with shrieks directs their way,...Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey." This, amongst many other passages to he met with in the writings of Collins, sl,ows that his genius... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 páginas
...By hunger rous'd, he scours the groaning plain, Haunt wolves and sullen tipers in his train: Btfcre them Death with shrieks directs their way, Fills the wild yell, and leads them to their prey." ТЫ«, amongst many other passages to be met with in the writings of Collins, shows that his genius... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 páginas
...Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands, are found, And faint and sickly winds, for ever howl around. " Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, " When first, from Schiraz' walls 1 bent my way!" Curs'd be the gold and silver which persuade Weak men to follow far-fatiguing trade!... | |
 | 1814 - 310 páginas
...night, By hunger roused he scours the groaning plain, Gaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his train ; Before them Death, with shrieks, directs their way,...luckless was the day, " When first from Schiraz' walls 1 bent my way !'5 At that dead hour the silent asp shall creep, If ought of rest I find, upon my sleep... | |
 | Bathilda (fict.name.) - 1815 - 76 páginas
...secure! They tempt no deserts, and no griefs they find; Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind. Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way." THE LOVE OF PRAISE. OF all the springs within the mind Which prompt her steps in fortune's maze, Prom... | |
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What if the lion in his rage I meet ! Oft in the dust I view his printed feet : And fearful ! oft, when day's declining light Yields her pale empire to the mourner night, By hunger... 
