 Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all...  The Neutral French: Or, The Exiles of Nova Scotia - Seite 139von Catherine Read Williams - 1841 - 347 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 Seiten
...sapp'd their strength, and ev'ry part unsound, Down, down they sink, and spread a ruin round. Ev'n now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; Ev'n now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 354 Seiten
...under their own vine and their own fig-tree, may deprive Britain of a hardy and useful body of men. EVEN now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land : Down, where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting, flaps in every... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 Seiten
...their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink, and spread a ruin round. . • i 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 where... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 Seiten
...Tillsapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, Down, down they sink, and spread a ruin round. Ev'n now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; Ev'n now, methinks, as pondering here 1 stand, 1 tee the rural virtues leave the land : Down where... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 Seiten
...sapped 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 yon... | |
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