 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...equalled by another, in any language, ancient or modern, it is by that with which the portrait concludes: 'To them his heart, his love, his griefs were giv'n;...in heav'n. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and mid-way leaves the storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds... | |
 | Helen Jacobus Apte - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 252 pages
...way. The following lines are said to be one of the best examples of metaphor in the English language: "As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." October 25, 1901 Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith... | |
 | Gina Luria Walker - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 352 pages
...by which the ancients are so generally characterized:* she, superior, rose above her contemporaries, "As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sun-shine settles on its head." Goldsmith's Deserted Village (1770) But there is not... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With... | |
 | Jaya Row - Religion - 2004 - 152 pages
...them, his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.' This is the crucial difference. Interact freely with... | |
 | 514 pages
...But Liberty rising above party prejudice, Freedom lifting itself above all other considerations, " As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...— Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." And on the ist day of January, 1863, the grandest New... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 2007 - 298 pages
...To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." — The Deserted Village. 98.40 The good Charles Goldsmith* * "In May this year (1768), he lost his brother,... | |
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To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,... 
