 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1816 - 228 pages
...shaded by the rocky shore, Rush the night-prowlers on the prey, And turn to groans his roundelay. 45 Strange— that where Nature loved to trace, As if for Gods, a dwelling-place, And every charm and grace hath mixed Within the paradise she fixed, There man, enamoured of distress,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 226 pages
...shaded by the rocky shore, Rush the night- prowlers on the prey, And turn to groans his roundelay. 45 Strange— that where Nature loved to trace, As if for Gods, a' dwelling-place, And every charm and grace hath mixed Within the paradise she fixed, There man, enamoured of distress,... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...Far shaded by the rocky shore, Rush the night-prowlers on the prey, And turn to groans his roundelay. Strange — that where Nature loved to trace, As if for Gods, a dwelling-place, And every charm and grace hatb mixed Within the paradise she fixed, There man, enamoured of distress,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 308 pages
...shaded by the rocky shore, Rush the night-prowlers on the prey, And turn to groans his roundelay. 45 Strange — that where Nature loved to trace, As if for Gods, a dwelling-place, And every charm and grace hath mix'd Within the paradise she fix'd, There man, enamour'd of distress,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1821 - 486 pages
...Far shaded by the rocky shore, Rush the night-prowlers on the prey, Aud turn to groans his roundelay. Strange — that where Nature loved to trace, As if for Gods, a dwelling-place, And every charm and grace hath mixed Within the paradise she fixed, There man, enamoured of distress,... | |
 | George Nelson Smith - Killarney, Lakes of - 1822 - 272 pages
...having been once the haunt of desperate freebooters, and forcibly recalls the words of the poet : — Strange — that where Nature loved to trace, As if for Gods, a dwelling-place, And every charm and grace hath mixed Within the paradise she fixed, There man, enamoured of distress,... | |
 | Edward Curr - Agriculture - 1824 - 232 pages
...turpitude of their inhabitants-, tempts us to exclaim with the poet, " Strange that where nature loves to trace As if for gods a dwelling-place ; There man,...enamoured of distress, Should mar it into wilderness !" Let the settler beware how he places himself amongst these people, for they are in general as poor... | |
 | Thomas Charlton Smith - 1824 - 180 pages
...can unbind That which existeth in the mind, And mocks controul. EPISTLE FHOM THE CITY OF VALENCIA. Strange— that where Nature loved to trace, As if for Gods, a dwelling-place, And every charm and grace hath mix'd Within the paradise she fixYI, There man, enamour*d of distress.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...Far shaded by the rocky shore, Rush the night-prowlers on the prey, And turn to groans his roundelay. Strange — that where Nature loved to trace, As if for gods, a dwelling-place, And every charm and grace hath mixed Within the paradise she fixed, There man, enamoured of distress,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 318 pages
...Far shaded by the rocky shore, Rush the night-prowlers on the prey, And turn to groans his roundelay. Strange — that where Nature loved to trace, As if for Gods, a dwelling-place, And every charm and grace hath mix'd Within the paradise she fix'd, There man, enamourM of distress,... | |
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Strange — that where Nature loved to trace, As if for Gods, a dwelling-place, And every charm and grace hath mix'd Within the paradise she fix'd, There man enamour'd of distress, Should mar it into wilderness... 
