 | English poetry - 1789 - 214 pages
...found delight : Nor less, than when on ocean-wave serene The southern sun diffused his dazzling shene. Even sad vicissitude amused his soul : And if a sigh...sigh, a tear, so sweet, he wish'd not to control. XXIII. " O ye wild groves, O where is now your bloom !" (The Muse interprets thus his tender thought.)... | |
 | James Beattie - 1797 - 150 pages
...found delight : Nor less, than when on ocean wave serene The southern sun diffused his dazzling shene. Even sad vicissitude amused his soul : And if a sigh...pity roll, A sigh, a tear, so sweet, he wish'd not to controul. XXIII. " O ye wild groves, O where is now your bloom !" (The Muse interprets thus his tender... | |
 | James Beattie - Wood-engraving - 1802 - 152 pages
...found delight : Nor less, than when on ocean-wave serene The southern sun diffused his dazzling shene*. Even sad vicissitude amused his soul : And if a sigh...sigh, a tear, so sweet, he -wish'd not to control. XXIII. " O ye wild groves, O where is now your bloom !" (The Muse interprets thus his tender thought.)... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...less, than when on. ocean-wave serene The southern sun diffused his dazzling shene* Even sad vicissiude amused his soul : And if a sigh would sometimes intervene,...sigh, a tear, so sweet, he wish'd not to control. * Brightness, splendour. The word is used by some lftt« Writers, as well is by Miltofl. XXIII. " O... | |
 | James Beattie - 1803 - 190 pages
...found delight : Nor less, than when on ocean-wave serene The southern sun diffused his dazzling shene. Even sad vicissitude amused his soul : And if a sigh...a tear of pity roll, A sigh, a tear, so sweet, he wished not to controul. XXIII. " O ye wild groves ! O, where is now your bloom ! ' (The Muse interprets... | |
 | James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1805 - 190 pages
...found delight : Nor less, than when on ocean-wave serene The southern sun diffused his dazzling shene*. Even sad vicissitude amused his soul : And if a sigh...bloOm !"(The Muse interprets thus his tender thought) " Ypur flowers, your verdure, and your balmy glooin, " Of late so grateful in the hour of drought !... | |
 | James Beattie - Authors, Scottish - 1805 - 178 pages
...found delight : Nor less, than when on ocean-wave serene The southern sun diffused his dazzling shene. Even sad vicissitude amused his soul : And if a sigh...a tear of pity roll, A sigh, a tear, so sweet, he wished not to controul. XXIII. ' O ye wild groves, O where is now your bloom !' (The Muse interprets... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1806 - 444 pages
...when on ocean-wave serene The southern sun diffus'd his dazzling sheen. Even sad vicissitude amus'd his soul ; And if a sigh would sometimes intervene,...pity roll, A sigh, a tear, so sweet, he wish'd not to controul." THE MINSTEL. ST. AUBERT awoke at an early hour, refreshed by sleep, and desirous to set... | |
 | 1806 - 184 pages
...when on ocean wave serene The southern sun diffus'd his dazzling shene. Even sad vicissitude amus'd his soul : And if a sigh would sometimes intervene,...And down his cheek a tear of pity roll, A sigh, a te.ir, so sweet, he wish'd not to control. " O ye wild groves, O where is now your bloom !" (The Muse... | |
 | 1810 - 420 pages
...while ••• Even the sad vicissitude amus'd my soul, » sigh wou'd sometimes intervene, And down my cheek, a tear of pity roll ; A sigh, a tear, so sweet 1 wish'd not to control." Yes ! the cheat was pleasing and the delirium sweet ; but my reflections... | |
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In truth he was a strange and wayward wight, Fond of each gentle, and each dreadful scene, In darkness, and in storm, he found delight : Nor less, than when on ocean-wave serene The southern Sun diffused his dazzling shene. 
