 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pagine
...spread a ruin round. E'en now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done: E'en now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the...connubial tenderness, are there; And piety, with wishes placed above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pagine
...spread a ruin round. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the...Loyalty, and faithful Love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit in these degen'rate times... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pagine
...devastation is begun. And half the business of destruction done ; Even now, methinks, as pond'ring here 1 stand, I see the rural Virtues leave the land. Down...Loyalty, and faithful Love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit in these degen'rate times... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pagine
...spread a ruin round. E'en now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; E'en now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the...connubial tenderness, are there : And piety, with wishes placed above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pagine
...I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sailS, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward...loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit in these degenerate times... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pagine
...leave the land. Down where yon anch'ring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with ev'ry gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass...connubial tenderness, are there; And piety with wishes placed above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pagine
...spread a ruin round. E'en now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done; E'en now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the...connubial tenderness, are there; And piety with wishes placed above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pagine
...destruction done ; E'en now methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. , i Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail That,...loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ! TJnfit, in these degenerate times... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pagine
...done ; E'en now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. ])own where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That...connubial tenderness are there ; And piety with wishes placed above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And tliou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagine
...the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done; Even now, methinks, as pond'ring let us touch thumbs, and be friends ere we part. [heart. thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit in these degen'rate times... | |
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I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore and darken all the strand. Contented toil and hospitable care,... 
