| Thomas Brown (the elder, pseud.) - 1818 - 770 páginas
...supposition is certain to make the eyes start beyond their orbits. " This folio of four pages ; happy What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations...pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at inch a world." So said the most pious of our poets ; and yet a novel, which contains but a small portion... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 páginas
...rage, Or placemen, all tranquillity and smiles. This folio of four pages, happy work ! Which not ev'n critics criticise ; that holds Inquisitive Attention,...busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge, That tempts Ambition. On the summit see The seals of... | |
| William Cowper - 1819 - 306 páginas
...bound in chains of silence, which the fair, Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break ', AVhat is it, but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge, That tempts Ambition. On the summit see The seals of... | |
| William Cowper - 1869 - 306 páginas
...feed upon the breath Of patriots, bursting with heroic rage, Or placemen, all tranquillity and smiles. This folio of four pages happy work ! Which not e'en...busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge, That tempts Ambition. On the summit see The seals of... | |
| William Cowper - 1820 - 508 páginas
...holds Inqnisitive Attention, while I read, Fast bound in chains of silence, which the fair, Thongh eloquent themselves, yet fear to break ; 'What is...busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge, That tempts Ambition. On the summit see The seals of... | |
| 1820 - 612 páginas
...source of luxury—- This folio of four pages — happy work, Which not even critics criticize: What it it but a MAP of busy life — Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns ? " Of all modern invention*." say* a sensible writer, " that of Printing confers the greatest honour... | |
| William Cowper - 1821 - 556 páginas
...placemen, all tranquillity and smiles. This folio of four pages, happy work ! Which not e'en crities criticise ; that holds Inquisitive attention, while...busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition. On the summit see, Thc seals of... | |
| Marmaduke Tulket - 1821 - 376 páginas
...in the front of its title, and the following appropriate motto : — " This folio of four pa,« — What is it but a map of busy life. Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns." The Choral Society continues under favourable auspices, and notice was given of their first rehearsal,... | |
| Peter Armstrong Whittle - 1821 - 1042 páginas
...in the front of its title, and the following appropriate motto : — " This folio of four pages — What is it but a map of busy life. Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns.* The Choral Society continues under favourable auspices, ami notice was given of their first rehearsal,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 310 páginas
...feed upon the breath Of patriots, bursting with heroic rage, Or placemen, all tranquillity and smiles. This folio of four pages, happy work! Which not e'en...busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge, That tempts Ambition. On the summit see The seals of office... | |
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