 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: Ancienne Gaul - Page 204by Parke Godwin - 1860 - 495 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1824 - 424 pages
...spirit with all that has gone before, may stand here as a voluntary to close the work. WE are what suns and winds and waters make us; The mountains are our...their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties; as the feet Of fabled faeries when-the... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 700 pages
...Astrsea ! though behind the sire's Broad egis, trembledst on thy heavenly throne. We are what suns and winds and waters make us; The mountains are our...their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties ; as the feet Of fabled faeries when... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - Mythology, Greek - 1847 - 306 pages
...am fain to rest ; Leave me, and ask for no more song to-day." XXXI. REGENERATION. We are what suns and winds and waters make us ; The mountains are our...their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties ; as the feet Of fabled faeries when... | |
 | charles black - 1850 - 630 pages
...graver thoughts are wrought into the pattern of fanciful and embroidered verse: — ' We are what suns and winds and waters make us; The mountains are our...their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties; as the feet Of fabled fairies, when... | |
 | William Mountford - Death - 1852 - 542 pages
...whether in this world or the next ! Blessings on them from the Highest ! CHAPTER XXIV. We are what suns, and winds, and waters make us. The mountains are our...Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles. WS LANDOB. The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark pf the unfathomed... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...proud oppression in her valleys reigns. And tyranny usurps her happy plains. Addison. We are what suns and winds and waters make us; The mountains are our...their smiles; But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties; as the feet Of fabled fairies, when... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1853 - 610 pages
...always appeared to us among the most powerful which Mr. Landor has written : — " We are what suns, and winds, and waters make us; The mountains are our...sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win their nursling to their smiles ; But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of... | |
 | 1861 - 790 pages
...poem of the " Hellenics," in a former edition, but which is not reprinted : — " We are what suns and winds and waters make us, The mountains are our sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win the nurseling with their smiles ; But where the land is dim with tyranny There tiny pleasures occupy... | |
 | John Forster - 1869 - 716 pages
...letter found afterwards nobler utterance in tile magnificent lines (Hellenic!)'. — " We aro what suns and winds and waters make us ; The mountains are our...their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties; as the feet Of fabled faeries when... | |
 | John Forster - 1869 - 558 pages
...introduction of her brother was the strangest accident. Writing to himself the other day she said her 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 feet Of fabled faeries when... | |
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