 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...seas, Ami his long night.s of revelry and ease : The Baked negro, panting at the line, Boasts of bis golden sands and palmy wine, Basks in the glare, or...compare, And estimate the blessings which they share, Though patriots flatter, still shall wisdom find An equal portion dealt to all mankind ; As different... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own ; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease ; The naked...good they gave. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er he roam, His first, best country, ever is, at home. And yet, perhaps, if countries we compare, And... | |
 | Charles Leonard Irby, James Mangles - 1845 - 346 pages
...disposition which nature implants in the breast of every man to love his native soil, be it what it may. " The naked negro, panting at the line. Boasts of his...for all the good they gave. Such is the patriot's hoast where'er we roam, His first, best country, ever is, at home." At three o'clock we recommenced... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - 312 pages
...consigned, Where my worn soul, each wandering hope at rest, May gather bliss to see my fellows blest. The naked negro, panting at the line, Boasts of his...wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave. 6. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His fixst, best country, ever is at home, And yet,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...beams of spring, The wintry storm that sweeps you to the tomb. Mason. Elegy un the Death of a Lady, The naked negro, panting at the line, Boasts of his...in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks the gods for all the good they gave. Goldsmith. The Traveller. BASKING SHARK, in Zoology, a common... | |
 | 1846 - 236 pages
...the frigid zone Boldly proclaims the happiest spot his own ; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease. The naked...we roam, His first, best country ever is at home." But we must not leave the Ashantee chief without a little more information about him and his father-land.... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...frigid zone, Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own : Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease : The naked...wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave. 6. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country, ever is at home, And yet,... | |
 | 1897 - 684 pages
...stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease. The naked negro, panting at the line, Hoasts of his golden sands and palmy wine, Basks in the glare...wave. And thanks his gods for all the good they gave." The outcries about the squalor and misery of the lower races of men come from those above them : but,... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 568 pages
...frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own ; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease : The naked...compare, And estimate the blessings which they share, Though patriots flatter, still shall wisdom, find All equal portion dealt to all mankind ; As different... | |
 | Dennis Kemp - 1898 - 362 pages
...What is the raw material like ? It surely was an altogether fanciful picture that described how — "The naked negro panting at the line, Boasts of his...in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks the gods for all the good they gave." Here violent exertion and gratitude are suggested ; but we look... | |
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But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own ; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease... 
