 | W. M. Wade - Oxford (England) - 1818 - 524 pages
...has been selected as the subject of an ac companding engraving. The softly swelling hills, formerly " On which the power of cultivation lies, '.-'' " And joys to see the wonder of his toil," while, as Mr. Brewer elegantly remarks, they " shield the City of the Muses from the winds " most inimical... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 290 pages
...censure Thomson as licentious for using the following figure: O vale of bliss! O softly swelling hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. We cannot conceive a more beautiful image than that of the genius of agriculture... | |
 | Thomas Green - Great Britain - 1818 - 654 pages
...beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung : O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil !" A more touching picture of connubial felicity, one more calculated to make the... | |
 | 1818 - 82 pages
...whate'er the muse « Has of Arcadia, or Hesperia, sung ; " Ovate of bliss! O softly swelling hills! " On which the power of cultivation lies, " And joys to see the wonders of his toils." Pleasures so pure and virtuous, could flow from uo meaner source tlwn religion,... | |
 | Robert Huish - Nobility - 1818 - 904 pages
...whate'er the Muse " Has of .-Ichaia or Hesperia sung. " O vale of bliss! O softly-swelling hills! " On which the power of cultivation lies, " And joys to see the wonders of his toil." These lines are to be found in the Poem on Summer, and the name Charlotte is... | |
 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - Laziness - 1818 - 316 pages
...beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! 0 vale of bliss ! O softly-swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...licentious ; witness the following instances put of many : O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. Summer, I. 14S5. Then sated Hunger bids his brother Thirit Produce the mighty... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English essays - 1820 - 514 pages
...censure Thomson as licentious for using the following figure: O vgle of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. We cannot conceive a more beautiful image than that of the Genius of Agriculture... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 384 pages
...Thomson as licentious for using the following figure : O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. We cannot conceive a more beautiful image than that of the Genins of Agriculture... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung! O vale of bliss ! O softly-swelling hills! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods,... | |
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O vale of bliss ! O softly - swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies , And joys to see the wonders of his toil. 
