...allusion to the severity of the season when he was there, or the lateness of springgenerally, that " No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May." A more precise statement of the time appears in the " History of Animated Nature." Speaking of woodcocks...

...the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread : No product here the barren hills afford — But man and steel, the soldier and his sword j No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But Winter lingering chills the lap of May.1' Yours, &c....

...the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread : No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the...meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. Yet still, ev'n here, content can spread a charm, Redress the clime, and all its rage disarm. Though poor the...

...Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, AndJorce a churlish soil for scanty bread N'o product studies among my friends in Ireland. I fancied strange revolutions it home,; but I find it was the IbO No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. Yet still,...

...well-known allusion to their climate : — " No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter ling'ring chills the lap of May : No zephyr fondly sues the...breast; But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest." After a charming and a much too favourable description of the lives of the Swiss peasantry — (the...

...his shed; And, wondering man could want the larger pile, Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile. No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter,...breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. 8. Yet still, even here, content can spread a charm, Redress the clime, and all its rage disarm. Though...

...mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread 4o product here the barren hills afford, 3ut man and steel, the soldier and his sword. No vernal blooms their torpid rocks army, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast. But...

...partisan, and the lamentations of the sorrowing , had so lately echoed. 283 CHAPTER XXV. No venml Mourns their torpid rocks array, But winter, lingering, chills...breast, But meteors glare , and stormy glooms invest. Goldsmith. THE roads of West-Chester are, at this hour, below the improvements of the country. Their...

...the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread : No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the...vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter ling'ring chills the lap of May ; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and...

...the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force the churlish soil for scanty bread; No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the...meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. Yet still, e'en here, content can spread a charm, Redress the clime, and all its rage disarm. Though poor the...