 | 1800 - 322 pagine
...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....day, " When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" Curst be the gold and silver which persuade Weak men to follow far-fatiguing trade! The lily peace... | |
 | William Collins - 1802 - 206 pagine
...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....day, " When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" Curst be the gold and silver which persuade Weak men to follow far fatiguing trade ! The lily peace... | |
 | William Collins - 1802 - 198 pagine
...valley's pride, Why think we these less pleasing to behold, Than dreary deserts, if they lead to gold ? " Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, " When first from Schiraz' walls I ber.t my way !" Oh cease, my fears ! — all frantic as I go, When thought creates unnumber'd scenes... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1803 - 492 pagine
...melancholy pleasure we echoed the melodious plaint of our fellow-traveler, Hassan, in the desert, — " Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz' walls I hent my way." The air lay lifeless between the hills, as in a seething caldron, with no leaf stirring,... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 168 pagine
...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....day, " When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" Curst be the gold and silver which persuade Weak men to follow far fatiguing trade ! The lily peace... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 166 pagine
...desperate sorrow wild, the affrighted man Thrice sigh'd; thrice struck his breast; and thus began i OR, " Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, " When first from Sri li rax' walls I bent my way !" Ah ! little thought I of the blasting wind, The thirst, or pinching... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pagine
...to know Which plains more bless'd or verdant vales bestow ; Here rocks alone and tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around....day, " When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" Curs'd be the gold and silver which persuade Weak men to follow far fatiguing trade ! The lily peace... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pagine
...They tempt no deserts, and no griefs they find ; Peace rules the clay where reason rules the mind. Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz' walls 1 bent my way." COLUSS. THE \ The Orange Tree. — The Generations of Man. 61 THE ORANGE TREE. IN the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pagine
...desperate sorrow wild, the affrighted man Thrice sigh'd ; thrice struck his breast ;and thus began* " Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day. " When first from Schir.us' walls 1 bent my way {M All ! little thought I of the blasting wind, The thirst, or pinching... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pagine
...desp'rate sorrow wild, th' affrighted man Thrice sigh'd, thrice struck his breast, and thus began : " Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, " When first from Sclu'raz' walls I bent my way !" Ah ! little thought I of the blasting wind, The thirst or pinching... | |
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And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. ' Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, 
