 | James Thomson - 1841 - 352 strani
...own cheerful fire — on the sages of ancient times, who gave light and liberty to the human mind : " There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty Dead ; Sages of ancient time, as gods revered, As gods beneficent, who blessed mankind With arts and arms,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1841 - 194 strani
...be my retreat, Between the groaning forest and the shore Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, sheltered, solitary scene ; Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers join, 430 To cheer the gloom. There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty Dead ; Sages... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1842 - 378 strani
...forest and the shore, Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, shelter'd, solitary scene ; v Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers join To cheer...me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead ; Sages of ancient time, as gods rever'd, As gods beneficent, who bless'd mankind With arts and arms,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1842 - 440 strani
...of waves, A rural, shelter'd, solitary scene ; Where ruddy fire, and beaming tapers join, To rlx-rr the gloom. There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead ; Sages of ancient time, as gods rever'd, As gods beneficent, who blest mankind With arts, with arms,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1842 - 266 strani
...alleviating the ills of life, as well as of adding grace and refinement to its pleasures. CHAPTER XXVII. There studious let me sit And hold high converse with the mighty dead ; Sages of ancient time, as gods revered, As gods beneficent, who blessed mankind With arts, with arms,... | |
 | 1843
...winter, where ruddy fire and beaming tnpers cheer the gloom, to the pursuits of the solitary student! "There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead ; Sages of ancient time, as gods revered. As gods beneficent, who bless'd mankind "With arts, with... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1842 - 334 strani
...alleviating the ills of life, as well as of adding grace and refinement to its pleasures. CHAPTER XXVIL " There studious let me sit, And hold high converse -with the mighty dead ; Sages of ancient time, as gods rever"d, As gods beneficent, who bless'd mankind With arts, with arms,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 strani
...Between the groaning forest and the shore, Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, shelter'd, f beauty, ; Sages of ancient time, as gods rever'd, As gods beneficent, who blest mankind With arts, with arms,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 strani
...boundless multitude of waves, A rural, shelter'd, solitary scene ; Where ruddy fire and beaming lapen work, the end Of all yet done ; a creature, who, not prono And brute as other creatures, but * - — Sages of ancient time, as gods rever'd, As gods beneficent, who blest mankind With arts, with... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1845 - 364 strani
...that Heaven's all-subduing will, With good, the progeny of ill, Attempereth every state below. vn. How pleasing wears the wintry night, Spent with the old illustrious dead ! While, by the taper's trembling light, 1 seem those awful scenes to tread Where chiefs or legislators... | |
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Now, all amid the rigours of .the year, In the wild depth of Winter, while without The ceaseless winds blow ice, be my retreat, Between the groaning forest and the shore Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, shelter'd, solitary scene ; Where... 
