 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...beyond whato'or the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! 0 vale of bliss ! 0 softly-swelling hills ! William Jenks wonders of his toil. KXKAPTDBKD ACCOUNT Of TBB 8C8SERT Of KXGLAXD. — LIBERTY, QUEEN OF THE ARTS.... | |
 | Andrew Dickinson - France - 1856 - 234 pages
...beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! O vale of bliss ! 0 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,... | |
 | Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1857 - 226 pages
...vale ! beyond whate'er t 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. * Highgate and Hampstead 1 In his last sickness. Heavens ! what a goodly prospect... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 610 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 genius of agriculture... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 pages
...abstract terms ; and he specifies the following verses : — O valo of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the Power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. — SUMMER. 1423. The book of Kames appeared in 1762. Three years afterwards Goldsmith... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - England - 1859 - 618 pages
...to those who censure Thomson as licentious for using the following figure : — 0 vale of bliss I 0 softly swelling hills I On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to sce the wonders of his toil. We cannot conceive a more beautiful image than that of the Genius of Agriculture,... | |
 | T P Grinsted - Great Britain - 1859 - 342 pages
...beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung. 0 vale of bliss ! 0 softly swelling hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil." These liues recall us to our present mission, which is to seek the remains of... | |
 | James Thomson - 1862 - 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,... | |
 | John George Brighton, Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke - Admirals - 1866 - 590 pages
...beautiful, not a spot of ground uncultivated; a continual succession of gentle swelling hills — ' Whereon the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonder of his toil.' The soil is marly mould ; the ground appears chequered with variety of meadows, fields, and gardens,... | |
 | R. Mackley Browne - Earth - 1868 - 228 pages
...beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! 0 vale of bliss ! 0 softly swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil." The well-known locality whence the scenery thus described by the poet is to be... | |
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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. 
