 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 1028 pagina’s
...mountains. ' Ami as a child, when scaring sound? molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast; So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.* The Swiss have a quiet temperament, and mediocrity of genius. The country lias produced few men distinguished... | |
 | Mary Brunton - 1832 - 500 pagina’s
...storms. And as a babe, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. GOLDSMITH. DURING our first day's journey, the road lay through a country so rich and so level, that... | |
 | 1832 - 564 pagina’s
...Dear is that shed to which his hopes conform, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storm, While the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.' " Sir, iti the name of my country, I demand this as a right ; I shall be grateful to accept it as a... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1833 - 270 pagina’s
...storms ; And as a child whom scaring sounds molest Clings close and closer to his mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more." What is here said of the Swiss eminently applies to the Greenland character, as it will be exhibited... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pagina’s
...desolate emblems of winter, than the beauty and verdure which surrounded him in a distant nation. E'en the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. Hi» thoughts turn to the valued friends he hai left behind him, and conscious of the melancholy reality... | |
 | John Barrow - 1834 - 446 pagina’s
...storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's hreast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more." When in the year 1814, these sons of the mountains and the fiords were struggling for their independence,... | |
 | John Barrow - 1834 - 424 pagina’s
...storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native, mountains more." When in the year 1814, these sons of the mountains and the fiords were struggling for their independence,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1835 - 158 pagina’s
...storms ; And, as a child whom scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to fiis mother's breast ; , So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. 729. The skies, like a banner in sunset unrolled, O'er the west threw their splendor of azure and gold;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1887 - 254 pagina’s
...storms; 205 And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. Such are the charms to barren states assigned; 210 Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd.... | |
 | 1887 - 410 pagina’s
...storm; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast— So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. Such are ths charms to barren states assign'd; Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd; Yet... | |
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Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to... 
