 WE are what suns and winds and waters make us; The mountains are our sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties; as the...  The History of France: (Ancient Gaul) - Page 205by Parke Godwin - 1860 - 495 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1824 - 424 pages
...There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties; as the feet Of fabled faeries when-the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers...the froth Of ever-varying ocean: what is best Then becomes worst; what loveliest, most deformed. That fillest all the space between the seas, Spreading... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - American poetry - 1826 - 656 pages
...tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties; as the feet Of fabled faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers...the froth Of ever-varying ocean: what is best Then becomes worst; what loveliest, most deformed. The heart is hardest in the softest climes, The passions... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 704 pages
...faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day. Then Justice, call'd the Eternal One above, Is more inconstant than the buoyant form That burst into existence from the froth Of ever-varying ocean : what is best Then becomes worst ; what... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 566 pages
...the rills Fashion and win their nurslings with their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and...above, Is more inconstant than the buoyant form That burst into existence from the froth Of ever varying ocean ; what is best Then becomes worst ; what... | |
 | charles black - 1850 - 630 pages
...the rills Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and...above, Is more inconstant than the buoyant form That burst into existence from the froth Of ever-varying ocean : what is best Then becomes worst; what loveliest,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...the rills Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles; But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and...form That bursts into existence from the froth Of ever- vary ing ocean: what is best Then becomes worst: what loveliest most deformed. Tbe heart is hardest... | |
 | 1861 - 790 pages
...with tyranny There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties ; its the teet Of tabled fairies when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass...above, Is more inconstant than the buoyant form That burst into existence from the froth Of ever-varying Ocean ; what is best Then becomes worst ; what... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...faeries, when the sun goes down, Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day. Then Justice, call'd the Eternal One above, Is more inconstant than the buoyant form, That burst into existence from the froth Of ever-varying ocean : What is best Then becomes worst ; what... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1873 - 552 pages
...occupy the place Of glories and of duties ; as the feet U X h Ul M H H X h O H g i p Of fabled faeries, when the sun goes down, Trip o'er the grass where...One above, Is more inconstant than the buoyant form X u K O X £ t B : That sprung into existence from the froth Of ever- varying ocean ; what is best... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 570 pages
...faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day. Then Justice, call'd the Eternal One above, Is more inconstant than the buoyant form That burst into existence from the froth Of ever-varying ocean : what is best Then becomes worst ; what... | |
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