 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Počet stránok 746
...following still possess interest. The allusion to Pope is peculiarly appropriate and beautiful : — $0 $ 8 $ i )ur sires in unaffected language told Of streams of amber and of rocks of gold : Full of their theme,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - Počet stránok 764
...following still possess interest. The allusion to Pope i» peculiarly appropriate and beautiful : — spurned all idle art, And the plain tale was trusted to the heart. Now all ¡a changed! We fume and... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - Počet stránok 792
...on clouds 1 seem to tread i And call for Mandeville, to ease my head. O for the good old limes! WHKN all was new, And every hour brought prodigies to view,...; Full of their theme, they spurn'd all idle art; And the plain tale was trusted lo the heart. Now all is changed ! We fume and frol, poor elves, Less... | |
 | George Griffith - 1870 - Počet stránok 462
...fit. And yet after many, many years of a truly varied life, I feel the truth of Gifford's words :— " Oh for the good old times! when all was new, And every...amber and of rocks of gold: Full of their theme, they spurned all idle art And the plain tale was trusted to the heart. Now all is changed! We fume and fret,... | |
 | George Griffith - 1870 - Počet stránok 498
...And yet after many, many years of a truly varied life, I feel the truth of Gifford's words : — " Oh for the good old times ! when all was new, And...sires in unaffected language told, Of streams of amber aud of rocks of gold : Pull of their theme, they spurned all idle art And the plain tale was trusted... | |
 | Počet stránok 980
...the country, towns, and willages atween, as if you'd been a marrow-fat blown out of a pea-shooter. " Oh ! for the good old times, when all was new, And every hoar brought coaches to our view." In their days, if you was jist off a journey of a undred mile, it... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - Počet stránok 860
...interest. The allusion to Pope is peculiarly appropriate and beautiful : Degeneracy of Modern Literature. $ ! ! !( 1 * + %- K&L&0 '2 x' 'I$w$ & & # # % ' ' ' ' ! ' '... ' ' ' & ' ' ' '}#% & ' 'R * + , - . @& ' ' 'V& !L & '8 9 ~' ' ' ' ' spurned all idle art, And the plain tale was trusted to the heart. Now all is changed ! We fume and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - Počet stránok 428
...allusion to Pope is peculiarly appropriate and beantiful : Degeneracy of Modern Literature. - -. •• Oh for the good old times ! when all was new, And...amber and of rocks of gold : Full of their theme, they spurned all idle art, And the plain tale was trusted to the heart. How all is changed ! We fume and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - Počet stránok 1000
...on clouds I seem to tread ; And call for Mandeville to ease my head. Oh for the good old times wheu all was new, And every hour brought prodigies to view ! Our sires iu unaffected language told Of streams of amber, aud of rocks of gold : Full of their theme, they spurned... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - Počet stránok 1002
...giddy, blind, Where'er I turn, on clouds I scorn to tread ; And call for Mandeville to ease my head. s Because it pleaseth thee : Our hearts at any time...reveal ; Then back again with mine shall fly, And spurned all idle art, And the plain tale was trusted to the heart. Now all is changed ! We fume and... | |
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Oh for the good old times ! When all was new, And every hour brought prodigies to view, Our sires in unaffected language told Of streams of amber, and of rocks of gold : Full of their theme, they spurn'd all idle art ; And the plain tale was trusted to... 
