 | Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 550 páginas
...Eas'd of her load subjection grows more light, And Poverty looks cheerful in thy sight; Thou mak'st the gloomy face of nature gay Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day. — ADDISON. The last line furnishes an instance of six feet, usually called an Alexandrian; but no... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 420 páginas
...How oft in fields of death thy presence sought, Nor thinks the mighty prize too dearly bought ! 130 On foreign mountains may the Sun refine The Grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With Citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat Olive swell with floods of oil : We envy not the... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 528 páginas
...Eased of her load subjection grows more light, And poverty looks cheerful in thy sight. Thou mak'st the gloomy face of nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day. Thee, goddess, thee Britannia's isle adores, How has she oft exhausted all her stores, How oft in fields... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 502 páginas
...oft in fields of death thy presence sought, Nor thinks the mighty prize too dearly bought. VOL. VD On foreign mountains may the sun refine The grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil: We envy not the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 410 páginas
...How oft in fields of death thy presence sought, Nor thinks the mighty prize too dearly bought ! 130 On foreign mountains may the sun refine The grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil : We envy not the... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 páginas
...stores, How oft in fields of death thy presence sought, Nor thinks the mighty prize too dearly bought ! On foreign mountains may the sun refine The grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine; With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil : We envy not the... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 páginas
...stores, How oft in fields of death thy presence sought, Nor thinks the mighty prize too dearly bought ! On foreign mountains may the sun refine The grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine;With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil: We envy not... | |
 | George Campbell Macaulay - 1908 - 280 páginas
...0 Liberty, thou goddess heavenly bright, Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight ! Thou mak'st the gloomy face of Nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the Sun and pleasure to the day. Thee, goddess, thee Britannia's isle adores ; " etc. The poem of Liberty is an expansion of this theme... | |
 | Albert Hamann - 1911 - 226 páginas
...Eased of her load, subjection grows more light, And poverty looks cheerful in thy sight; Thou mak'st the gloomy face of nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day. Tis liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1913 - 410 páginas
...Eased of her load, subjection grows more light, And poverty looks cheerful in thy sight ; Thou raak'st the gloomy face of nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day." Addison did not like Spenser, whom he thought extravagant, almost as trying as the Alps which made... | |
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Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling Plenty leads thy wanton train; Eas"d of her load Subjection grows more light, And Poverty looks cheerful in thy sight ; Thou mak'st the gloomy face of Nature... 
