 But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet,...  The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: With an Account of His Life ... - Sida 12efter Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 148 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1914 - 340 sidor
...care, dragging behind him a lengthening chain which rivets him to his brother's blessed home life. ImpelTd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting...realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend; After comparing the... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1914 - 340 sidor
...dragging behind him a lengthening chain which rivets him to his brother's blessed home life. Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good,...realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. * E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend; After comparing the... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 sidor
...But rae, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care; Impell'd ms Of past existence — wilt thou then forget That...that I, so long 151 A worshipper of Nature, hither 1:0 spot of all the world my own. E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 952 sidor
...But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care; Impell'd . Sweet smiling village, loveliest of tbe lawn, Thy...tyrant's baud is seen, And desolation saddens all t foriune leads to traverse realms alone, And And 1:0 spot of all the world my own. K'en now, where Alpine... | |
 | John Adams - 1915 - 302 sidor
...notion of an ideal. You remember that Goldsmith, referring to the horizon, has the suggestive lines : "That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies." So the ideal allures from far, and when pursued proves as unattainable as the horizon. But it does... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1916 - 136 sidor
...stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good. Impelled, with steps unceasing, to pursue 25 Some fleeting good that mocks me with the view, —...realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. 30 Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And placed on high... | |
 | Emily Dorothea Proud - 1916 - 400 sidor
...; but it remains essentially the same. At the approach of law it moves further towards the ideaj, " That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, | Allures from far, yet, as we follow, flies." PART ll INTRODUCTION IN the development of industry which led to the Personal establishment... | |
| |
