| 1800 - 322 Seiten
...the devastation is begun, And half the bus'ness of destruction done: Fv'n now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anch'ring vessels spread the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 Seiten
...the devastation is begun, And half the bus'ness ot destruction done; E'en now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anch'ring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with ev'ry gale, Downward they move, a melancholy... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 Seiten
...sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink, and spread a ruin round. E'en now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; E'en now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, • I see the rural virtues leave the land. , Down... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 Seiten
...sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound* Down, down they sink, and spread a ruin round. " E'en now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; E'en now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down, where... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 Seiten
...devastation is begun, And half the bus'ness of destruction done ; E'en now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anch'ring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with ev'ry gale, Downward they move, a melancholy... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 Seiten
...Till sapp'd their strt-ngth, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink, and spread a ruin round. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; Even now, mi-thinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I sec the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring... | |
| 1806 - 330 Seiten
...devastation is begun, And half the bus'ness of destruction done : Ev'n now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anch'ring vessels spread the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 Seiten
...devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction clone ; Ev'n now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land....with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. Contented toil, and hospitable care, And kind... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 Seiten
...Till sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink, and spread a ruin round. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; Even now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 426 Seiten
...of wasting their powers in futile declamations, or in the intrigue* .of party ! CHAPTER VIII. " Ev'n now the devastation is begun, " And half the business of destruction done." GOLDSMITH. MADAME DE FLEURY was not disappointed ia her pupils. When the public disturbances began,... | |
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