 | 1824 - 398 pages
...heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. To them his heart, his lovo, his griefs were given ; But all his serious thoughts...storm : Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." M. STERLING. HAPPINESS. How few the moments of this... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...plcai'd him.and their cares di*tress'd To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given. But ail his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way. With... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...smile. His ready smile a parent's warmth exprest, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares distrast; n, these honours shall be snatch'd away, And curs'd...For lo ! the board with cups and spoons iscrown'd, form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storra, Though round its breast the rolling clouds... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 pages
...less imposing than the fine poetic picture with which Goldsmith has enriched his Deserted Village. " As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm ; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." The sunshine, it is true, was very far from being eternal... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - Derbyshire (England) - 1824 - 420 pages
...less imposing than the fine poetic picture with which Goldsmith has enriched his Deserted Village. " As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Etermd sunshine settles on its head." The sunshine, it is true, was very far from being eternal;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...His ready smile a parent's warmth express'd, Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distress'd ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given,...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With... | |
 | 1825 - 896 pages
...His ready smile a parent's warmth express'd, Their welfare plcas'd him, and their cares distress'd ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given,...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on Ids head." — Deserted Pillage.— T. There is another defect... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - Children's sermons - 1825 - 614 pages
...happiest hours. Of such a man may I not say in the well known and beautiful language of Goldsmith, — " As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm ; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. But, Sir, I check myself in these hurried and too much... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...them his heart, his love, his griefs, were giv'n, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heav'n. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...Comfort came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his last, faltering accents whispered praise. Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread^ Eternal sunshine settles on its head. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks... | |
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To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,... 
