 | Books - 1824 - 564 pages
...Century. By the Author of " Tales from Switzerland." * 12mo. 2 Vols. 10s. Boards. Westley. 1823. " E'en now where alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend." Goldsmith. * See Review for April last. , We We need not say how happy we should be to carry... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 396 pages
...follow, flies; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. ^s> Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend; And, plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...follow, flies ; My 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 plac'd on high, above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...flies.... My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Ev'n now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a. pensive hour to spend ; And, plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...flies : My 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 high, above the storm's career, Look downward, where an hundred realms appear... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...follow, flies; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Ev'n now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And plac'd on high, above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, Aud 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 ; Aud plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where a hundred realms appear.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1807 - 606 pages
...fragrance o'er the wild." Autumn, v. 202. Goldsmith very pathetically applies a similar image. — " E'en now where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend. Like yon neglected shrub at random cast, That ihades the steep, and sighs at every blast.'1... | |
 | Edward Mangin - Books and reading - 1808 - 240 pages
...he makes choice of to take his purposed view of society, is selected with great judgment : ' " Ef rn now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down, a pensive hour to spend." Beneath him he sees, while " above the storm's career,1' lakes, forests, cities, plains,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...follow fliet; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. E'en they see mountains, he but atoms sees; An empire, in his balance to spend ; And plac'd on high, above the storms career, Loe>k downward \vhereanhumli-ed realmsappear;... | |
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My 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... 
