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" Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view That like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies: My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. E'en now, where Alpine solitudes... "
The Desultory Man - Page 172
by George Payne Rainsford James - 1836
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry, Volumes 3-4

John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 396 pages
...flies; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. ^s> Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend; And, plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear; Lakes, forests,...
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The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. E'en now, where alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend; And plac'd on high, above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear; Lakes, forests,...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...flies.... My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Ev'n now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a. pensive hour to spend ; And, plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear ; Lakes, forests,...
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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...follow, flies : My fortune leads to traverse realms, alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me...high, above the storm's career, Look downward, where an hundred realms appear ; Lakes, forests, cities, plains, extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...follow, flies; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Ev'n now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And plac'd on high, above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear; Lakes, forests,...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, Aud find no spot of all the world my own* E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; Aud plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where a hundred realms appear. Lakes,...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1807 - 606 pages
...fragrance o'er the wild." Autumn, v. 202. Goldsmith very pathetically applies a similar image. — " E'en now where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend. Like yon neglected shrub at random cast, That ihades the steep, and sighs at every blast.'1 Traveller....
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An Essay on Light Reading: As it May be Supposed to Influence Moral Conduct ...

Edward Mangin - Books and reading - 1808 - 240 pages
...he makes choice of to take his purposed view of society, is selected with great judgment : ' " Ef rn now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down, a pensive hour to spend." Beneath him he sees, while " above the storm's career,1' lakes, forests, cities, plains, the kingly...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...my own. E'en now, where Alpine solitndes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where...hundred realms appear. Lakes, forests, cities, plains extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride. When thus Creation's charms around...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...follow fliet; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. Where they see mountains, he but atoms sees; An empire, in his balance, weighs a grai plac'd on high, above the storms career, Loe>k downward \vhereanhumli-ed realmsappear; Lakes, Weils,...
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