 No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword ; No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May ; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy...  Child's Magazine - Page 291816Full view - About this book
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where the black Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread;...vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May ; No aephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display. Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread;...vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May ; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display, Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread...vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May ; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...Where rougher climes a nobler nice display ; Where the bleak-Swiss thcirstormymansiontread, And ferce d his orb to s sUel, the soldier and his swerd. No vernal blo.wis ihur' torpid rocks array, But winter ling'ring cbilU... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...climes a nobler race display; Where the black Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churl^h soil for scanty bread; No product here the barren hills afford, But mHn and steel, the soldier and his sword. Nor vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 pages
...survey t Where rougher climes a tloblei' rar? display ; Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread;...vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display ; Where the bleak Swiss their stormy. mansions tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread...vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May ; IVo zephyr fondly soothes the mountain's breast, But meteor's glare,... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pages
...we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display ; Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread-, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread...vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May ; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pages
...fcanty bread ; No produft.here the barren hills afFord, But man and fteel, the foldier and his fword. No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter...ling'ring chills the lap of May ; No zephyr fondly fues the mountain's breaft, But meteors glare, and ftormy glooms invert. Yet ftill e'en here content... | |
 | 1850 - 938 pages
..."The bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread ; No produce here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword." Switzerland has been long celebrated for the mercenary troops she supplied to foreign courts ; but... | |
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