| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 sidor
...muse. How has kind heav'n adorn' d the happy land, And scatter 'd blessings with a wasteful hand ! But what avail her unexhausted stores, Her blooming...and the charms of art, While proud oppression in her vallies reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains ? The poor inhabitant beholds in vain1 The red'ning... | |
| Cornelius Conway Felton - 1854 - 40 sidor
...ages. " How has kind Heaven adorned the happy land, And scattered blessings with a watchful hand ; But what avail her unexhausted stores, Her blooming...mountains, and her sunny shores, With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart , The smiles of nature, and the charms of art, While proud oppression in her... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 sidor
...mountains and her sunny shores, With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart, The smiles of nature, ami the charms of art, While proud oppression in her valleys reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains ? The poor inhabitant beholds in vain The reddening orange, and the swelling grain: Joyless he sees... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 sidor
...sunny shores, With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart, The smiles of nature, and the eharms of art, While proud oppression in her valleys reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains 7 Addism s llalli268 JAIL -JEALOUSY. Far to the right, where Apennine aseends, Bright as the summer,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 474 sidor
...invite my muse. How is the happy land above the rest Adorned with pleasures and with plenty blest ! 8 But what avail her unexhausted stores, Her blooming...mountains, and her sunny shores, With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart, The smiles of nature, and the charms of art, While proud oppression in her... | |
| Ferdinand De Wilton Ward - 1856 - 344 sidor
...kind heaven adorn'd the Italian land, And scatter'd blessings with a wasteful hand ! But what avails her unexhausted stores, Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores, With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart The smiles of nature and the charms of art, While proud oppression in her valleys... | |
| Thomas Rose (topographical writer.) - 1856 - 278 sidor
...Baron Knaresdale, of Knaresdale, in Northumberland. SCOTSWOOD BRIDGE. " With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart, The smiles of nature, and the charms of art." AODISON. SCOTSWOOD SUSPENSION-BRIDGE, erected over the river Tyne, about three miles above Newcastle,... | |
| 1857 - 904 sidor
...ignorance, beastly vices, and beggary. In 1701 Addison drew this description of her : " But what arail her unexhausted stores, Her blooming mountains and...valleys reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains ? The poor inhabitant beholds in vain, The redd'ning orange and the swelling grain; Joyless he sees... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 sidor
...me in Umbria's green retreats ; Where western gales eternally reside, With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart, The smiles of nature, and the charms...valleys reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains ? The poor inhabitant beholds in vain The reddening orange, and the swelling grain : Joyless he sees... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 sidor
...lies. * * How has kind heaven adorn'd the happy land, And scatter'd blessings with a wasteful hand ! But what avail her unexhausted stores, Her blooming...mountains, and her sunny shores, With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart, The smiles of nature, and the charms of art, While proud oppression in her... | |
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