 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pagina’s
...the good of all mankind. If countries we compare, And estimate the blessings which they share; Tho' patriots flatter, still shall Wisdom find An equal portion dealt to all mankind. Here beggar-pride defrauds her daily cheer, To boast one splendid banquet once a year. The mind still... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pagina’s
...wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His...given, To different nations makes their blessings even. Nature, a mother kind alike to all, Still grants her bliss at labour's earnest call ; With food as... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 pagina’s
...wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His..., To different nations makes their blessings even. Nature, a mother kind alike to all, Still grants her bliss at labour's earnest call; With food as well... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pagina’s
...the good they gave. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we m;ui\, His first, best country, is ever at home, And yet, perhaps, if countries we compare,...good, by art or nature given, To different nations make their blessings even. Nature, a mother kind alike to all, Still grants her bliss at labour's earnest... | |
 | 1858 - 1194 pagina’s
...wine ; Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam ; His first, best country, ever is at home." (The Traveller, 63—74.) potatoes, cabbage, and preserved berries on the Lansman's [Magistrate's]... | |
 | Charles Leonard Irby, James Mangles, John Barker - 1823 - 634 pagina’s
...wine Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave,, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave. Such is the patriot's boast where'er we roam, His first, best country, ever is, at home." At three we recommenced our operations; while we were working, arrived a spy from Daoud Cashief, who... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave. nd, when so tough a frame she could not bend, Exceeded...purvey'd ; The rest he found, but raie'd the fabric Nature, a mother kind alike to all, Still grants her bliss at labour's earnest call ; With food as... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pagina’s
...wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His...Though patriots flatter, still shall wisdom find An eoual portion dealt to all mankind : As different good, by art or nature given, To different nations... | |
 | James Wallace (ship's surgeon.) - 1824 - 192 pagina’s
...breaking it, if such an attachment has been made. CHAPTER IV. THE ARRIVAL. • Where'er we roam Our first, best country, ever is at home. And yet, perhaps,...compare, And estimate the blessings which they share, Tho' patriots flatter, still will wisdom find An equal portion dealt to all mankind. GOLDSMITH. AT... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pagina’s
...wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His...given, To different nations makes their blessings even. Nature, a mother kind alike to all, Still grants her bliss at labour's earnest call ; With food as... | |
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... proclaims that happiest spot his own, Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease; The naked negro, panting at the line, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And... 
