 | Books - 1709 - 578 pages
...myself,, or some here and there such other out ni the-way person. Such is the peculiar pleasure 1 take in the season of winter, more than the rest of the...believe, may be partly owing to my misfortunes giving my jpiad a roelaucholy cast : but there is something even in the •' Mighty tempest, and the hoary waste... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 520 pages
...myself; or some here and there, such other out-of-the-way person. Such is the peculiar pleasure I take in the season of winter, more than the rest of the...believe, may be partly owing to my misfortunes giving giving my mind a melancholy cast ; but there is something even in the " Mighty tempest, and the hoary... | |
 | 1800 - 418 pages
...out-of-the-way- perfon. Such is the peculiar pleal'ure I take in the feafon of winter, more than the reft of the year. This, I believe, may be partly owing to my misfortunes giving my mind a melan. choly caft : but there is forneihing even in the in-orre or more inftahces, hav.e been a wanfi,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...gleams Deep musing, then he best exerts his song. ''. Even winter \\'ild to him is full of bliss. i The mighty tempest , and the hoary waste, Abrupt, and deep , stretch'd o'er the burled earth, ; Awake- to solemn thought. At night the skies, Disclos'd, and kindled, by refining frost,... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...the tepid gleams Deep musing, then he best exerts his song. Even Winter wild to him is full of bliss. The mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt, and deep, stretch'd o'er the buried earth, Awake to solemn thought. At night the skies, Disclos'd, and kindled, by refining frost, Pour every... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...the tepid gleams Deep musing, then he best exerts his song. Even Winter wild to him is full of bliss. The mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt, and deep, stretch'd o'er the buried earth, Awake to solemn thought. At night the skies, Disclos'd, and kindled, by refining frost, Pour every... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...the tepid gleams Deep musing, then he best exerts his song. E'en Winter wild to him is full of bliss. The mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt, and deep, stretch'd o'er the buried earth, Awake to solemn thought. At night the skies, Disclos'd, and kindled, by refining frost, Pour ev'ry... | |
 | William Patterson - Forests and forestry - 1804 - 350 pages
...disastrous scenes produced by those elementary tumults, the admirers of nature feel something exalting in the " Mighty tempest, and the hoary waste " Abrupt and deep, stretch'd o'er the buried earth." That legitimate child of nature, the ingenious Burns, was always enraptured when walking in the sheltered... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...tepid gleams Deep musing, then he best exerts his song. E'en Winter wild to him is full of bliss : 1325 The mighty tempest and the hoary waste, Abrupt and deep, stretch'd o'er the buried earth, Awake to solemn thought. At night the skies, Disclos'd and kindled by refining frost, Pours every lustre... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...tepid gleams Deep musing , then he best exerts his song. Even Winter wild to him is full of bliss : The mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt , and deep , stretch'd o'er the bwried earth Awake to solemn thought. At night the skies , Disclos'd and kindled by refining frost... | |
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As I am what the men of the world, if they knew such a man, would call a whimsical mortal, I have various sources of pleasure and enjoyment, which are, in a manner, peculiar to myself, or some here and there such other out-of-the-way person. Such is the... 
