 O ! when the growling winds contend, and all The sounding forest fluctuates in the storm ; To sink in warm repose, and hear the din Howl o'er the steady battlements, delights Above the luxury of vulgar sleep.  The Quarterly Review - Page 353edited by - 1813Full view - About this book
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...blast. Thomson's Seasons. Oh ! when the growling winds eontend, and all The sounding forest fluetuates in the storm ; To sink in warm repose, and hear the...battlements, delights Above the luxury of vulgar sleep. Armstrong's Art of Preserving Health. Peaee, peaee — thou rash and unadvised man Oh ! add not to... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...behind O'erhung, defends you from the blustering north, And bleak affliction of the peevish east. Oh ! for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries,...To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies ; common sleep. ADVANTAGES OF A XRAR-BY RIVULET 5 IT KEEPS THE AIR 1ST MOTION. — THE BREEZY B1DGE.... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pages
...behind O'erhung, defends you from the blustering north, And bleak affliction of the peevish cast. Oh ! battlement«, delights Above the luxury of common sleep. ADVANTAGES OF A NF,.tR-BT RtVULKT i IT KEEPS... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 604 pages
...of Preserving Health." " O when the growling winds contend, snd all The sounding forest Jtuetuatet in the storm, To sink in warm repose, and hear the din Howl o'er the steady battlements " The word fluctuate on this occasion not only exhibits an idea of struggling, but also echoes to the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 610 pages
...fluctuate with admirable efficacy, in his philosophical poem, entitled, " The Art of Preserving Health." " O when the growling winds contend, and all The sounding...and hear the din Howl o'er the steady battlements -" The word fluctuate on this occasion not only exhibits an idea of struggling. but also echoes to... | |
 | John Armstrong, John Dyer, George Gilfillan, Matthew Green - 1858 - 314 pages
...O'erhung, defends you from the blustering north, And bleak affliction of the peevish east. 287 Oh! when the growling winds contend, and all The sounding...battlements, delights Above the luxury of vulgar sleep. The murmuring rivulet, and the hoarser strain Of waters rushing o'er the slippery rocks, Will nightly... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1859 - 618 pages
...fluetuate with admirable effieaey, in his philosophical pocm, entitled The Art of Preserving Health : Oh 1 when the growling winds contend, and all The sounding...and hear the din Howl o'er the steady battlements The word fluetuate, on this oecasion, not only exhibits an idea of struggling, but also echocs to the... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1859 - 226 pages
...or beneficial results. 5. 0! when the growling winds contend, and all The sounding iorestfluctuates in the storm, To sink in warm repose, and hear the din Howl o'er the steady battlements. Remarks. — Here the word fluctuates appropriately exhibits an image of struggling. 6. Shakspeare... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...the peevish east. 0 ! when tho growling winds contend, and all The sounding forest fluctuates in tho storm, To sink in warm repose, and hear the din Howl o'er the steady battlements, dclighte Above the luxury of vulgar sleep. Armstrong. BUILDING— Thoughtfulness in. When we mean to... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1866 - 342 pages
...The resemblance on which the metaphor is founded is obviously one of relation and not of properties. O! when the growling winds contend, and all The sounding...in the storm, To sink in warm repose and hear the diu Howl o'er the steady battlements — s There is in these lines an accumulation of metaphors, all... | |
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