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 the world my own. E'en now, where Alpine solitudes... The Desultory Man - Página 172por George Payne Rainsford James - 1836Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| John Bell - 1789 - 396 páginas
...flies; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. ^s> Even 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 an hundred realms appear; Lakes, forests,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 páginas
...follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. E'en 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 an hundred realms appear; Lakes, forests,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 páginas
...flies.... My fortune leads to traverse 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 above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear ; Lakes, forests,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 páginas
...follow, flies : My fortune leads to traverse realms, alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me...high, above the storm's career, Look downward, where an hundred realms appear ; Lakes, forests, cities, plains, extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 páginas
...follow, flies; My fortune leads to traverse 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, above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear; Lakes, forests,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 páginas
...follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, Aud find no spot of all the world my own* E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; Aud plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where a hundred realms appear. Lakes,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 páginas
...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 ihades the steep, and sighs at every blast.'1 Traveller.... | |
| Edward Mangin - 1808 - 240 páginas
...he makes choice of to take his purposed view of society, is selected with great judgment : ' " Ef rn now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down, a pensive hour to spend." Beneath him he sees, while " above the storm's career,1' lakes, forests, cities, plains, the kingly... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...my own. E'en now, where Alpine solitndes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where...hundred realms appear. Lakes, forests, cities, plains extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride. When thus Creation's charms around... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...follow fliet; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Where they see mountains, he but atoms sees; An empire, in his balance, weighs a grai plac'd on high, above the storms career, Loe>k downward \vhereanhumli-ed realmsappear; Lakes, Weils,... | |
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