 Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts...  Essays and Lectures: Historical and Literary - Page 298by James Whiteside - 1868 - 478 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Mary Brunton - 1815 - 302 pages
...shed to which his soul conforms ; And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms. And as a babe, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer...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... | |
 | St. Clyde (fict.name.) - 1816 - 322 pages
...elegant poet would have said, " 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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 pages
...bliss his scanty fund supplies : 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...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... | |
 | 1816 - 300 pages
...bliss his scanty fund supplies. 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...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pages
...ftorms : And 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 - 1817 - 192 pages
...bliss his scanty fund supplies : 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...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... | |
 | 1828 - 964 pages
...Dear is that abed to which hip soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the stormi; And aa a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close...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... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 520 pages
...to the storms ; And as a babe, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the molhel's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.'' Go i,»SMITH. Here it occurs to me to mention the well-known fact, that a tune «ailed the Ranees des... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 pages
...bliss his scanty fund supplies. 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...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... | |
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