 | English essays - 1764 - 404 pages
...mofs-crown'd fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more bleft, or verdant vales beftow : Here rocks alone, and taftelefs...found, And faint and fickly winds for ever howl around. " Sad was the hour, and lucklefs was the day, " When firft from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !'*' ...... | |
 | William Collins, John Langhorne - English poetry - 1765 - 200 pages
...mofs-crown'd fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more bleft, or verdant vales beftow : Here rocks alone, and taftelefs fands are found, And faint and ficUy winds for ever howl around, Vet in thefe beautiful lines there is a flight error, which writers... | |
 | William Collins, John Langhorne - English poetry - 1765 - 210 pages
...delights to know, Which plains more bleft, or verdant vales bellow : Here rocks alone, and taltclefs fands are found, And faint and fickly winds for ever howl around. " Sad was the hour, and lucklefs was the day, " When, firft from Schiraz" walls I bent my way I' Curft... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...mofs-crown'd fountains mitigate the day, In rain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more bleft, or verdant vales, beftow: Here rocks alone, and taftelefs...found, And faint and fickly winds for ever howl around. " Sad was the hour, and lucklefs was the day, When firft from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" Curft... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 294 pages
...day, Ja vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more bleft, or verdant vales, beflows Here rocks alone, and taftelefs fands, are found, And faint and fickly winds for ever howl around. " Sad was the hour, and lucklefs was the day, When firft from Schiraz' walls I bent my way \" Curft... | |
 | Moses Mendez - English poetry - 1770 - 334 pages
...delights to know, Which plains more bleft, or verdant vales beftow t Here rocks alone, and taftclefs fands are found, And faint and fickly winds for ever howl around. " Sad was the hour, and lucklefs was the day, " When firft from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" Curft... | |
 | England - 1772 - 418 pages
...grown fountains mitigate the day, In vain the hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blcft, or verdant vales / beftow ; Here rocks alone and taftelefs...found. And faint and fickly winds for ever howl around* In the following paflage alfo there is a great force of expreffion, and of com^ pofition. At that dead... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 340 pages
...mofs-crown'd fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more bleft,' or verdant vales beftow : Here rocks alone, and taftelefs...found, And faint and fickly winds for ever howl around. " Yet in thefe beautiful lines there is a ffight error, which writers of the greateft genius very frequently... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 380 pages
...day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more bleft, or verdant vales beftow i Here rocks alone, and taftelefs fands are found, And faint and fickly winds for ever howl around." Yet in thefe beautiful lines there is a flight error, which writers of the greateft genius very frequently... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 628 pages
...mofs-crown'd fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more bltft, or verdant vales beftow : Here rocks alone, and taftelefs fands are found, And faint and fiekly winds for ever howl around." Yet in thefe beautiful lines there is a ffight error, which writers... | |
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In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more bleft, or verdant vales beftow : Here rocks alone, and taftelefs fands are found, And faint and fickly winds for ever howl around. " Sad was the hour, and lucklefs was the day, 
