 | W. M. Wade - 1818 - 524 páginas
...has been selected as the subject of an ac companding engraving. The softly swelling hills, formerly " On which the power of cultivation lies, '.-'' " And joys to see the wonder of his toil," while, as Mr. Brewer elegantly remarks, they " shield the City of the Muses from... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 458 páginas
...licentious ; witness the following instances put of many : O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. Summer, I. 14S5. Then sated Hunger bids his brother Thirit Produce the mighty bowl; Nor wanting is... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...Hesperia sung ! IO vale of bliss ! O softly-swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, I love consists not : Love refines The thoughts, and...enlarges ; hath his scat In reason, and is judicious ; The stretching landscape into smoke decays ! Happy Britannia ! where the queen of arts, Inspiring vigour,... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 páginas
...spirit flies, Sweet |o the world, and grateful to the skies. . XI- — Panegyric on Great Britain. HEAVENS ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of...and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, ' And glitt'ring towr.s, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays ! Happy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 514 páginas
...censure Thomson as licentious for using the following figure: O vgle of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. We cannot conceive a more beautiful image than that of the Genius of Agriculture distinguished by the... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 páginas
...flies, Sweet to the world, and grateful to the skies. XI. — Panegyric on Great Britain. — THOMPSON. HEAVENS ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spirer And glitt'ring towns, and gilded dreams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - 1820 - 498 páginas
...circumference ; and from various points in this fine domain are obtained extensive and beautiful views of " Hills and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, " And glittering towers, and gilded streams, till all " The stretching landscape into smoke decays!" LEICESTERSHIRE.... | |
 | 1821 - 384 páginas
...Thomson as licentious for using the following figure : O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. We cannot conceive a more beautiful image than that of the Genins of Agriculture distinguished by the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 páginas
...beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung! O vale of bliss ! O softly-swelling hills! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to...around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, andspires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays!... | |
 | Marmaduke Middleton - 1822 - 102 páginas
... POETICAL SKETCHES, THE WEST OF ENGLAND. Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around Of...And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays! Happy Britannia ! where the queen of arts, Inspiring vigour,... | |
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Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays... 
