 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 strani
...Generons converse; a soul exempt from pride, And love to praise, with reason on his side. — Pope. Here studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead. Thomson. His converse is a system fit Alone to fill up all her wit. Swift. CON VICT— CON VINCE .... | |
 | James Thomson - 1854 - 312 strani
...multitude of waves, A rural, shelter'd, 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 of ancient time, as gods revered, As gods beneficent, who bless'd mankind With arts, and arms,... | |
 | Mark Akenside, John Dyer - 1855 - 472 strani
...that Heaven's all- subduing will, With g(3od, the progeny of ill, Attempereth every state below. VII. 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... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 strani
...be my retreat, Between the groaning forest and the shore Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, d upon the lap of earth A youth to Fortune and to...Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his boun ; Sages of ancient time, as gods revered, As gods beneficent, who blessed mankind With arts, with arms,... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 strani
...and tho shore Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, sheltered, solitary scene ; Whore ruddy fire and beaming tapers join To cheer the gloom....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,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1856 - 344 strani
...multitude of waves, | A rural, shelter'd, 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_mightv_Dead ; Sages of ancienTtlnie, as gods revered, As gods beneficent, who bless'd mankind... | |
 | Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1857 - 226 strani
...Between the groaning forest and the shore Beat by the boundless multitude of waves ; A rural, sheiter'd, solitary, scene ; Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers...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... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1857 - 544 strani
...And that Heaven's all-subduing will, With good, the progeny of ill, Attempereth every state below. How pleasing wears the wintry night, Spent with the old illustrious dead ! While, by the taper's trembling light, I seem those awful scenes to tread, Where chiefs or legislators... | |
 | Richmal Mangnall - 1859 - 600 strani
...Her Medici the arts relume; That torch shall never die. MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS GRECIAN HISTORY. Here studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead, Sages of ancient times, as gods revered : As gods beneficent, who bless'd mankind With arts, with arms,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1862 - 272 strani
...Between the groaning forest and the shoro Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, sheltcr'd, solitary scene, Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers...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,... | |
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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... 
