 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 páginas
...the child. The canvass glow'd beyond e'en nature warm, The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form, But, more unsteady than the southern gale, Soon Commerce turn'd on other shores her sail; While nought remain'J of all that riches gave, But towns unmann'd, and lords without a slave -, And... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 páginas
...Till more unsteady than the southern gale, Commerce on other shores display'd her sail." stood thus, " But more unsteady than the southern gale, Soon Commerce turn'd on other shores her sail." Again, " Yet still the loss of wealth is here supply'd, By arts, the splendid wrecks of former pride,"... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 606 páginas
...Till more unsteady than the southern gale, Commerce on other shores display'd her sail." stood thus, " But more unsteady than the southern gale, Soon Commerce turn'd on other shores her sail." Again, " Yet still the loss of wealth is here supply'd, By arts, the splendid wrecks of former pride,"... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 páginas
...Till more unsteady than the southern gale, Commerce on other shores display'd her sail," stood thus, " But more unsteady than the southern gale, Soon Commerce turn'd on other shores her sail." Again, " Yet still the loss of wealth is here supply'd, By arts, the splendid wrecks of former pride,"... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 páginas
...Again, " Till more unsteady than the southern gale, Commerce on oiher shores display'd her sail." " But more unsteady than the southern gale, Soon Commerce turn'd on other shores her sail." " Yet still the loss of wealth is here supplied, By arts, the splendid wrecks of former pride," is... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 páginas
...long-fall'n mind An easy compensation seem to find. Here may be seen, in bloodless pomp array'd, * ["But more unsteady than the southern gale, Soon commerce turn'd on other shores her sail." — First edit.] t ["Yet, though to fortune lost, here mill abide The pasteboard triumph and the cavalcade... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1902 - 80 páginas
...the skies ; The canvas glow'd beyond even Nature warm, The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form. But, more unsteady than the southern gale, Soon Commerce turn'd on other shores her sail ; And late the nation found, with fruitless skill, Their former strength was now plethoric ill. 140... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1906 - 362 páginas
...(Miscellaneous Writings, 1825, p. 208.) 1. 139. Till, more unsteady, &c. In the first edition : — But, more unsteady than the southern gale, Soon Commerce turn'd on other shores her sail. There is a certain resemblance between this passage and one of the later paradoxes of Smollett's Lismahago... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 páginas
...the skies; The canvass glow'd beyond even Nature warm, The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form. But, more unsteady than the southern gale, Soon Commerce turn'd on other shores her sail ; And late the nation found, with fruitless skill, Their former strength was now plethoric ill. Yet,... | |
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Nature warm, The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form. But, more unsteady than the southern gale, Soon Commerce turn'd on other shores her sail ; And late the nation found, with fruitless skill, Their former strength was now plethoric ill. 