OF chance or change, O let not man complain, Else shall he never never cease to wail : For, from the imperial dome, to where the swain Rears the lone cottage in the silent dale, All feel the assault of fortune's fickle gale... A Visit to Australia and Its Gold Regions - Page 95by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1853 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Reid - 1872 - 200 pages
...more in prose. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. For, from the imperial dome, to where the swain Rears...fickle gale; Art, empire, earth itself, to change are doomed; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale, And gulphs the mountain's mighty mass entombed,... | |
| Mark Akenside - 1878 - 792 pages
...from the imperial dome, to where the swain Kears the lone cottage in the silent dale, All feel th' assault of fortune's fickle gale ; Art, empire, earth itself, to change are doom'd ; Earthquakes have rais'd to heaven the humble vale, And gulf's the mountain's mighty mass entomb'd, And where th' Atlantic... | |
| John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...from the imperial dome, to where the swain Rears the lone cottage in the silent dale. All feel th' assault of Fortune's fickle gale; Art, empire, earth itself, to change are doom'd ; Earthquakes have rais'd to Heaven the humble vale, And gulfs the mountain's mighty mass entomb'd ; And where th' Atlantic... | |
| Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 pages
...from the imperial dome, to where the swain Rears the lone cottage in the silent dale, All feel th' assault of fortune's fickle gale ; Art, empire, earth itself, to change are doom'd ; Earthquakes have rais'd to heaven the humble vale, And gulfs the mountain's mighty mass entomb'd And whereth'Atlanticrolls... | |
| David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...THE LIFE OF MAN.— King. 101.—ON THE EFFECTS OF TIME AND CHANGEL—jBeottte Of Chance or Change, O let not man complain, Else shall he never, never,...fickle gale : Art, empire, earth itself, to change are doomed ;• Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale, And gulfs the mountain's mighty mass... | |
| Literature - 1886 - 552 pages
...complain, Else shall he never, never cease to wail, For, from the imperial dome to where the swain Eears the lone cottage in the silent dale, All feel the...fickle gale : Art, empire, earth itself, to change are doomed ; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale, And gulfs the mountain's mighty mass entombed,... | |
| Henry Coppée - Literature - 1895 - 552 pages
...fruit ; And Edwin gained at last this fruit so rare, As in some future verse I purpose to declare. Of chance or change oh let not man complain, Else...fickle gale : Art, empire, earth itself, to change are doomed ; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale, And gulfs the mountain's mighty mass entombed,... | |
| James Chapman - 286 pages
...Smith. ON THE EFFECTS OF TIME AND CHANGE. OF chance or change, O let not man complain, Else should he never, never cease to wail ; For, from the imperial...earth itself, to change are doom'd ; Earthquakes have rais'd to heaven the humble vale, And gulfs the mountain's mighty mass entomb'd, And where the Atlantic... | |
| Law - 1887 - 542 pages
...from the Imperial dome, to where the swain Rears the lone cottage In the silent, dale, All feel th' assault of fortune's fickle gale; Art, empire, earth Itself, to change are dooin'd ; Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale, And gulfs the mountains mighty masj entomb'd.... | |
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