While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that... The Picture Gallery of the Nations - Стр. 591870 - Страниц: 262Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - Страниц: 764
...planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. lled, Majestic darkness ! On the whirlwind's wing Riding sublime, thou vaia ; Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue ; And even in penance planning sins anew. All... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - Страниц: 472
...appreciate the man rather than the merit ; but posterity will regard the merit rather tnan the man. 8. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign, Though...Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue, And e'en in penance planning sins anew. The student may now write a list of subjects in pairs, which can... | |
| Henry Mandeville - 1851 - Страниц: 396
...form no part of " the all things whatsoever" that you are required, by this verse, to do for them. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign :...grave', yet trifling'; zealous', yet untrue'; And e'en in penance, planning sins anew. Fled, while the robber swept his flocks away And slew his babes.... | |
| Goold Brown - 1851 - Страниц: 324
...XII. Antithesis is a placing of things in opposition, to heighten their effect by contrast ; as, " Contrasted faults through all his manners reign ;...; Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue ; sAnd e'en in penance, planning sins anew." — Goldsmith. XIII. Climax is a figure in which the sense... | |
| Henry Mandeville - 1851 - Страниц: 370
...form no part of " the all things whatsoever " that you are required, by this verse, to do for them. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign*:...luxurious^; though submissive', vain*; Though grave', vet trifling*; zealous', yet untrue*; And e'en in penance, planning sins anew. But misery brought in... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - Страниц: 476
...planter's toil ; While sea born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all this nation knows. In florid beauty proves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles... | |
| World - 1884 - Страниц: 560
...planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And...all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and hills appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners... | |
| Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan - 1884 - Страниц: 320
...planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In Horid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults... | |
| Swan Sonnenschein (and co, ltd.) - 1884 - Страниц: 234
...But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, 20. And 1S sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In u florid beauty groves and fields appear ; Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. 15 Contrasted faults through all his manners reign : Though poor, luxurious ; though submissive, vain... | |
| James Stephen Jeans - 1885 - Страниц: 482
...Railway Sirvice." By Hon. KJward Atkinson. Now York, 1883. CHAPTER XX VII. THE ACHILLES' HEEL OF ENGLAND. "In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems...Though poor, luxurious; though submissive, vain." — GOLDSMITH. THE post-Homeric story which tells us how Thetis dipped Achilles in the river Styx to... | |
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