 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, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all...  Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell - Pagina 2door Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 68 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1821 - 270 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pagina’s
...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, as I follow, flies; B 3 My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Ev'n now,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pagina’s
...Impell'd with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the viewl That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from...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,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 pagina’s
...hopes and pleasures fled ; And,'mid thy haunted loneliness, the mind LETTERS ON A TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. now where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend. GOLDSMITH. WE arrived at Orbe, from Dijon, by way of Salins and Pontarlier— a road full of beauty,... | |
 | 1822 - 592 pagina’s
...the past— still round thee glows and gleams. J. ' ( 22 ) I.ETTKKS OS A TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. Kv'n now where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend. GULDSHITU. WE arrived at Orbe, from Dijon, by way of Salins and Pontarlier — a road full of beauty,... | |
 | 1822 - 600 pagina’s
...of the past — still round thee glows and gleams. J. LKTTEKS ON A. TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. NO. I. Ev'n now where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend. GOLDSMITH. WE arrived at Orbe, from Dijon, by way of Salins and Pontarlicr — ft road full of beauty,... | |
 | A. Yosy - 1823 - 304 pagina’s
...TTW. JE .' ) l &tt SUpme " E'en now, while Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend."— Goldsmith. AN SUGGESTED BY CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH OCCURRED TOWARDS THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE Century, BY... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pagina’s
...Impell'd with steps unceasinc to punue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from...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,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pagina’s
...kind could increase the sum of enjoyment. When we read those well-known lines of the Traveller, " Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And, placed on nigh above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear : Lakes, forests, cities,... | |
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