And though the rocky-crested summits frown, These rocks, by custom, turn to beds of down. From art more various are the blessings sent, Wealth, commerce, honour, liberty, content ; Yet these each other's power so strong contest, That either seems destructive... The Anti-Jacobin Review and Protestant Advocate: Or, Monthly Political and ... - Page 571807Full view - About this book
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1894 - 112 pages
...into the tropics, intimates what " the line " here is. On Idra's cliffs as Arno's shelvy side ; 85 And, though the rocky-crested summits frown, These rocks by custom turn to beds of down. From art more various are the blessings sent : Wealth, commerce, honor, liberty, content. Yet these... | |
| Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 568 pages
...grants her bliss at labor's earnest call : With food as well the peasant is supplied On Idra's cliffs as Arno's shelvy side ; And though the rocky-crested...frown, These rocks by custom turn to beds of down. From art more various are the blessings sent ; Wealth, commerce, honor, liberty, content. Yet these... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 pages
...grants her bliss at labor's earnest call : With food as well the peasant is supplied On Idra's cliffs as Arno's shelvy side ; And though the rocky-crested...frown, These rocks by custom turn to beds of down. From art more various are the blessings sent ; Wealth, commerce, honor, liberty, content. Yet these... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...grants her bliss at labor's earnest call: With food as well the peasant is supplied On Idra's cliffs as Arno's shelvy side ; And though the rocky-crested...frown, These rocks by custom turn to beds of down. From art more various are the blessings sent ; Wealth, commerce, honor, liberty, content. Yet these... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1901 - 458 pages
...grants her bliss at labour's earnest call : With food as well the peasant is supply'd On Idra's cliffs as Arno's shelvy side ; And though the rocky-crested...frown, These rocks by custom turn to beds of down. From art more various are the blessings sent ; Wealth, commerce, honour, liberty, content. Yet these... | |
| Sir John Young Walker MacAlister, Alfred William Pollard, Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, Sir Frank Chalton Francis - 1902 - 498 pages
...at Labour's earnest call : Withfwd as well the peasant is suppled On tiro's cliffs as ArnSs sbelvy side ; And though the rocky-crested summits frown, These rocks, by custom, turn to beds of down. From Art more various are the blessings sent ; Wealth, commerce, honour, liberty, content. Yet these... | |
| 1910 - 542 pages
...grants her bliss at Labour's earnest call; With food as well the peasant is supplied On Idra's cliffs as Arno's shelvy side; And though the rocky-crested...frown, These rocks, by custom, turn to beds of down. From Art more various are the blessings sent; Wealth, commerce, honour, liberty, content. Yet these... | |
| 1910 - 524 pages
...grants her bliss at Labour's earnest call; With food as well the peasant is supplied On Idra's cliffs as Arno's shelvy side; And though the rocky-crested...frown, These rocks, by custom, turn to beds of down. From Art more various are the blessings sent j Wealth, commerce, honour, liberty, content. Yet these... | |
| 1910 - 298 pages
...grants her bliss at Labour's earnest call ; With food as well the peasant is supplied On Idra's cliffs as Arno's shelvy side ; And though the rocky-crested...frown, These rocks, by custom, turn to beds of down. From Art more various are the blessings sent ; Wealth, commerce, honour, liberty, content. Yet these... | |
| Richard Ashe King - 1910 - 370 pages
...their temper—which must needs remove The sensible of pain." Or as The Traveller itself has it:— "And though the rocky-crested summits frown, These rocks by custom turn to beds of down." But there is more than this in Goldsmith's doctrine that every nation has its compensatory blessings,... | |
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