| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 páginas
...with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the views That, like the eircle eir censure, I E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And placed on high... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 páginas
...But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent, and care, — Me fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend; And placed on hi^h,... | |
| 1847 - 540 páginas
...MARTIAL. 4. Impell'd with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view, That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies. GOLDSMITH'S Traveller. 5. Those high-built hopes that crush us by their fall. CAMPBELL. 6. Successful... | |
| Eliza W. Smith - 1848 - 252 páginas
...soon, too soon Thy darker disk will show. JVov. 6, 1843. THIRTY YEARS AGO. BY E. tytf. S. CHAPTER I . My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Goldsmith. rilQlrl.TY years ago, on the eve of leaving the city, to spend a few weeks on the seashore,... | |
| Thomas Wilson Haynes - 1848 - 360 páginas
...placed. Such a person is always in pursuit of what he rarely obtains. worldly good ! How true of all " That like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet as we follow, flies." He possessed a good deal of energy of character; "Nil desperandum" was his motto.... | |
| Eliza W. Smith - 1848 - 254 páginas
...orbit, soon, too soon Thy darker disk will show. JVov. 6, 1S43. THIRTY YEARS AGO. BY ETPS CHAPTER I . My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of Ul the world my own. Goldsmith. rOO^TY years ago, on the eve of leaving the city, to spend a few weeks... | |
| Daniel O'Connell - 1903 - 314 páginas
...i ./ ) " Impelled, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view. That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies." These lines, extracted from The Traveller, follow immediately those in which Goldsmith describes so... | |
| Julian Hill - 1907 - 378 páginas
...and care : Impelled, with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures...realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. But times slowly brightened for a man who could deride Fortune as easily as he dropped her a tear.... | |
| Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 páginas
...care, '5 Impelled, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures...flies; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, 30 And find no spot of all the world my own. Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down... | |
| Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 528 páginas
...care, 25 Impelled, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures...flies; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, 30 And find no spot of all the world my own. Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down... | |
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