 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
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 pages
...as a child, when fearing founds moleft, Clings clofe and clofer to the mother's breaft, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. Such are the charms to barren ftates aftign'd— Their wanti but few, their wilb.es all confin'd. Yet... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - Education - 1812 - 374 pages
...and to give full effect to those feelings, so dear to the heart of a Highlander, that make ; The loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. Besides, in the Gaelic poetry there is scarcely ever, even in the most modern . and inferior species... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...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... | |
 | Mary Brunton - 1814 - 306 pages
...as a babe, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the load torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. GoLDSMITH. DURING our first day's journey, the road lay through a country so rich and so level, that... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 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 confined.. Yet... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...as a child, when fearing founds mole ft, Clings clofe and clofer to the mother's bread ; So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. Such are the charms to barren ftates allign'd . Their wants but few, their wifhes all confin'd. Yet... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...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... | |
 | St. Clyde (fict.name.) - 1816 - 322 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." Though a very few years before St. Clyde visited Mull, by an act of the British legislature, hereditary... | |
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