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" Or moss-crown'd fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know Which plains more blest, or verdant vales, bestow : Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands, are found ; And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. " Sad was the... "
The Calcutta Review - Page 260
1849
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The poems, of William Collins, with notes selected and orig. by W. Crowe

William Collins - 1828 - 104 pages
...day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest, or verdant vales bestow: Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. " Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, " When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" . Curst...
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The Poems of William Collins: With Notes Selected from the Editions of ...

William Collins - Poems - 1828 - 108 pages
...day, In vain ye .hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest, or verdant vales bestow: Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. . " Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, " When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" Curst...
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The Poetical Works of William Collins, Volume 1

William Collins, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Sir Egerton Brydges, John Langhorne - English poetry - 1830 - 234 pages
...day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest, or verdant vales, bestow : Here rocks alone and tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around." Yet in these beautiful lines there is a slight error, which writers of the greatest genius very frequently...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 1

Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...share ! In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest, or verdant vales, bestow : Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands, are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way ! The Camel-driver....
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The Scottish Christian Herald, Volume 1, Part 1

Church history - 1836 - 378 pages
...the green delighu to know. Which plains more blessed or verdant vales bestow ; There rocks alone, or tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around." Uounts. The springs are but few and scanty all over the desert, in that part especially where Ishmael...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 45

England - 1839 - 876 pages
...day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest, or verdant vales bestow : Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way ! " » ч...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volume 6

1839 - 550 pages
...delights to know, Which plains more blest, or verdant hills bestow ; Here rocks alone and listless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around." The flowers and beauty of evangelical piety are to be sought for in a different garden. Peace never...
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The Life and Opinions of the Rev. William Milne, D.D., Missionary to China ...

Robert Philip - Missionaries - 1840 - 556 pages
...of the turtle tastes of fish, another of flesh, and another of fowl. Here rocks alone, and trackless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. Next day we were between the islands of St. Jago md Mayo. A tthe latter place we intended to have stopped...
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The Life and Opinions of the Rev. William Milne, D.D., Missionary to China ...

Robert Philip - Missionaries - 1840 - 472 pages
...of the turtle tastes of fish, another of flesh, and another of fowl. Here rocks alone, and trackless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. Next day we were between the islands of St. Jago and Mayo. At the latter place we intended to have...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...day, In vain ye hope the green delight to know, Which plains more blessed or verdant vales bestow -, carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that I s ' Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way!' Cursed...
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