 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pages
...TRAVELLER. 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...extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride. When thus creation's charms around combine, Amidst the store, should thankless pride repine... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 pages
...TRAVELLER. 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...extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride. When thus creation's charms around combine, Amidst the store, should thankless pride repine... | |
 | 1837 - 728 pages
...passage is beautifully expanded by the poet, aud rendered more striking by its locality : — Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down...high, above the storm's career, Look downward, where a hundred realms appear. Speaking of the character of the French, the Poet says, So blest a life these... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 602 pages
...pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; That, like the circle bounding rarth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow flies; My fortune...realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own."—TRAVELLER.] raise my compassion for their miseries, were not my thoughts too busily engaged... | |
 | 1838 - 332 pages
...skies, Allures from far, yet, as 1 follow, flies; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And lind no spot of all the world my own. E'en now, where Alpine...high above the storm's career, Look downward where a hundred realms appear ; Lakes, forests, cities, plains, extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 pages
...be placed at the distance of convenient vision, about 18 inches from the eye. 'placed on high, amid the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred...extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride.' The primary triangulation, commenced in 1791, on which the general correctness of the whole... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...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...realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. •j — . E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, / I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; I And,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle hounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune...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, placed on high... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pages
...pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with tbe view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune...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... | |
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But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; 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,... 
