 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1916 - 136 sider
...Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; 200 And even those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed...storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, 205 Clings close and cleser to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - 1918 - 628 sider
...decides the question truly in the affirmative ; and he says, of the inhabitant of those bleak wilds : ' Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And...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.' ' 1 OLIVER GOLDSMITH—... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 sider
...That is, savage animal. The word had not yet been limited for specialized application to human beings. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1919 - 106 sider
...Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; 200 And ev'n those hills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed...storms: And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, 205 Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1919 - 572 sider
...Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And ev 'en those hills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed...conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms : 205 And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1920 - 520 sider
...Imprints the patriot passion on his heart : And ev'n those hills, 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 that lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer... | |
 | 1924 - 332 sider
...proverbial. The patriotism of the Swiss peasant has been celebrated by Goldsmith in an exquisite simile : — "And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud tempest and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more." Briefly summarised... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 sider
...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 lull which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 sider
...heart, 200 And even those ills, that round his mansion rise, RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Enhance wyli say it is my treasure. Yf any man aske why I...Fy on this worldes vanyte! 940 Farewell golde pur 206 Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar,... | |
 | James Bruce Earl of Elgin, Public Archives of Canada - 1937 - 422 sider
...avalanches while he "tills a surly soil for scanty bread," can thus exclaim: — "Dear is that spot to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms,' surely the inhabitants of the lovely and boundless valley of the St. Lawrence, may feel an ineffable... | |
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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... 
