Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to... Little Grace, Or, Scenes in Nova-Scotia - Page 52by Miss Grove - 1846 - 178 pagesFull view - About this book
| Scotland - 1828 - 1538 pages
...a child, when scaring «ou mi« molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more. Now, this is one of the assertions which people believe to be true, because nobody has taken the trouble... | |
| George Canning - Great Britain - 1828 - 458 pages
...as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more." What Goldsmith thus beautifully applied to the physical varieties of soil and climate, has been found... | |
| 1829 - 476 pages
...as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.' " What Goldsmith thus beautifully applied to the physical varieties of soil and climate, has been found... | |
| Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...And aa a child when scaring sounds molest, igs close, and closer to hia mother's breast, S° the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. ITALY. GOLDSMITH. FAR to the right where Appeunine ascends, Bright as the summer, Italy extends ; Its... | |
| English literature - 1829 - 528 pages
...as a babe, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more." The reader will pardon this somewhat long quotation, for the lines so beautifully, and so truly, describe... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to its mother's breast, So the loud tempest and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more." The sources of patriotism hitherto mentioned arise chiefly from the imagination and from' the association... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud rt, it flourished, and might have Sourished to this hour, but for a fatal ac Such are the charms to barren states assign'd ; Their wants but few, their wishes all confined. Yet... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. Such are the charms to barren states assign'd ; Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd. Yet... | |
| Europe - 1830 - 400 pages
...as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast ; So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more. GOLDSMITH. NEAR the town of St. Maurice, on the road to Martigny, stands the small sequestered hamlet... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud *C)vq QV :E 'D` H g5 5t Such are the charms to barren states assigned; Their wants but few, their wishes all confined. Yet... | |
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