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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ... - Page 146
1853 - 472 pages
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Beauties of Poetry: Consisting of Elegant Selections from the Works of Pope ...

English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...His- ready smile a parent's warmth express'd, Their welfare pleased him and their cares distress'd ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given,...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With...
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Lectures on the sacred poetry of the Hebrews; tr. by G. Gregory ..., Volume 1

Robert Lowth (bp. of London.) - 1816 - 478 pages
...ready smile a parent's warmth express'd, ." Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares distress'd J " To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given,...." Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, " Eternal sunshine settles on Jiis head.'" Deserted Village. T. There is another defect in...
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The Poetical Works, and Essays, of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...His ready smile a parent's warmth .exprest ; Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares distrest : To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given,...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread , Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...warmth express'd, Their welfare pleased Mm, and their cares distress'd; To them his heart, his love, bis griefs were given; • But all his serious thoughts...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its bead. PROVIDENCE. A HYMN. BY ADII1SON. THE Lord my pasture...
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The Traveller, The Deserted Village, and Other Poems ...

Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...them his heart, his love, his griefs, were giv'n, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heav'n. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread. Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggting fence that skirts the vray With...
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The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service post, around the pious man, With steady zeal each honest rustic ran: Even children followed,...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence, that skirts the way With...
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Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...smile. His ready smile a parent's warmth exprest, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares distrest ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given,...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...warmth exprest, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares distrest ; To them his heart, his Jove, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling .fence that skirts the way, With...
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The Deserted Village, Traveller, and Miscellaneous Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...smile. His ready smile a parent', warmih exprest : Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares distrest ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given,...in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, aud midway leaves the storm, Though rouud its breast the rolling clouds...
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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 13

1819 - 552 pages
...hanging half way down their sides, — and forcibly reminded me of the beautiful lines of Goldsmith — ' As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.' This appears to be literally the case with these mountains...
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