 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
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1824 - 570 pagina’s
...Century. By the Author of " Tales from Switzerland." * 12mo. 2 Vols. 10*. Boards. Westley. 1823. " E'en now where alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend." Goldsmith. * See Review for April last. We need not say how happy we should be to carry the resemblance... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 536 pagina’s
...balmy 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 shades the steep, and sighs at every blast." Traveller.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some 8ecting good, that mocks me with the view; That, like K y ] 5 x $ x ; w x Sies; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Ev'n now,... | |
 | 1824 - 624 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 (o spend ; And, placed on high above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 pagina’s
...Impell'd with steps unccsaing to pursue Some fleeting good that mocks me with the view ; 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,... | |
 | Art - 1825 - 408 pagina’s
...have no idea of hell present in our minds. Listen to Goldsmith's description of such a scene : " 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 a hundred realms appear : Lakes, forests,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pagina’s
...Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good that mocks me with the view j That, like the circle bounding earth and skies*. Allures from far, yet as I follow flies ; Me fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. E'en now, where... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pagina’s
...steps uneeasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that moeks me with the view ; That, like the eirele ; U y fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Ev'n now, where... | |
 | 1826 - 300 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...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,... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 pagina’s
...pointed out, but not the very spot where he lay ; O how unlike the place from whence they fell! MILTON. My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. GOLDSMITH. The site is the spot on which any thing stands or is situated ; it is more commonly applied... | |
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