 I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.  Granby: A Novel ... - Page 270by Thomas Henry Lister - 1829Full view - About this book
 | John Stoddart - 1801 - 386 pages
...intermedial notices, we throw away a precious year*." But the most pitiable state of mind is that man's, " who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, Tis all barren." Of such a one Sterne justly observes, that " he set out with the spleen and jaundice ; and every object... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 310 pages
...experiment has kept my senses and the best part of my blood awake, and laid the gross to sleep. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'tis all barren ; — and so it is : and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I... | |
 | 1838 - 884 pages
...holding out to him, as he journey eth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on ! I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren ; — and so it is : — and so is all the world — to him u'ho will not cultivate the fruits it offers."... | |
 | Sydney - 1818 - 78 pages
...Ev'n the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, " And trodden weeds send out a rich perfume." " I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba^ and cry' 'tis " all barren ;' and so it is : and so is all the world to him who will " not cultivate the fruits it offers." By... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...experiment has kept my senses and the best part of my blood awake, and laid the gross to sleep. I pity pk Xk @k ; — and so it is : and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...experiment has kept my senses and the best part of my blood awake, and laid the gross to sleep. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, "Tis all barren ; — and so it is : and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...pounds; in ten years to more than a sixth part of our circulating coin. — Johnson. MXCVII. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'tis all barren — and so it is; and so is all the world to him who who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. —... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1830 - 432 pages
...experiment has kept my senses and the best part of my blood awake, and laid the gross to sleep. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren; — and so it is : and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I declare,... | |
 | Joseph Droz - 1832 - 340 pages
...never failing occasions to give his heart up to the full impulses of joy. ' I pity,' says Sterne, ' the man, who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry 'tis all barren ; and yet so it is ; and so is all the world, to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1832 - 384 pages
...experiment has kept my senses and the best part of my blood awake, and laid the gross to sleep. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, "Tis all barren ; — and so it is : — and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.... | |
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