 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her bright' ning face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve." Nor yet the more solemn and chastised swellings of the heart that breathe iu UK* lines of Cowper: —... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliography - 1836 - 632 pages
...nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face. You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods...— Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave !" CHAPTER VI. PUBLICATIONS. "Another and another still succeeds." SHAKSPEARE. LET not the reader imagine... | |
 | 1836 - 784 pages
...Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the -windows of the sky, Thro' which Aurora shews her brightening foce ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods...Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.* Perhaps such ardent enthusiasm may not be compatible with the necessary toils, and active offices,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Authors, English - 1836 - 422 pages
...brightening face. You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living streams, at eve ; Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace,...fancy, reason, virtue, — nought can me bereave. How pleasant would it be to go on thus, if my memory would enable me, gathering choice specimens of... | |
 | Literature - 1836 - 332 pages
...Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns by living stream at eve.* Such minds bave always in them the seeds of true taste, and frequently of imitative genius. At least,... | |
 | Ellwood Roberts - American poetry - 1895 - 318 pages
...not shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You can not tar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by...living stream, at eve; Let health my nerves and finer fibers brace, And I their toys to the great children leave ; Of Fanev, Reason, Virtue, naught can me... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1895 - 446 pages
...nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky. Through which Aurora shows her bright'ning face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns by living streams at eve • ' ' " Sir, there are homilies in nature's works worth all the wisdom of the schools,... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...Nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; el Keeler Hoyt a. THOMSON — The Castle of Indolence. Canto II. St. 3. O Nature! • « • Enrich me with the knowledge... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - English poetry - 1896 - 312 pages
...can not shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You can not bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve."3 It is to The Seasons that we must go if we wish to understand Thomson's work as a poet of nature.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the s'.y, Through which Aurora shows her bright'ning face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living streams, at eve ; Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children... | |
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I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream,... 
