| Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1839 - 388 pages
...presence be a grace, And the blackest discontents Be her fairest ornaments. In my former days of bliss, Her divine skill taught me this, That from everything I saw I could some invention draw, And raise pleasure to her height By the meanest object's sight. By the murmur of a... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...presence be a grace ; And the blackest discontents Be her fairest ornaments. In my former days, of bliss. Her divine skill taught me this, That from everything I saw I could some invention draw, And raise pleasure to her height Through the meanest object's sight. By the murmur... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...presence be a grace ; And the blackest discontents Be her fairest ornaments. In my former days of bliss, H sonic invention draw : And raise pleasure to her height, Through the meanest object's sight, By the... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...presence be a grace; And the blackest discontents Be her fairest ornaments, In my former days of bliss Her divine skill taught me this, That from everything I saw I could some invention draw; And raise pleasure to her height, Through the meanest object's sight;— By the murmur... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...presence be a grace ; And the blackest discontents Be her fairest ornaments, In my former days of bliss Her divine skill taught me this, That from everything I saw I could some invention draw ; And raise pleasure to her height, Through the meanest object's sight ; — By the... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...presence be a grace ; And the blackest discontents Be her fairest ornaments. In my former days of bliss, invention draw : And raise pleasure to her height, Through the meanest object's sight, By the murmur... | |
| Robert Patterson - 1849 - 282 pages
...Arachriida. l<'ig. 26 — NERVOUS SYSTEM OP CARABUS. CLASS I.— LEECHES, EARTH-WORMS, &c. ANNELLATA. " Her divine skill taught me this, That from everything I saw I could some instruction draw, And raise pleasure to the height, Through the meanest object's sight." — G. WITHER. THE most obvious... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1849 - 290 pages
...presence be a grace ; And the blackest discontents Be her fairest ornaments, In my former days of bliss Her divine skill taught me this, That from everything I saw I could some invention draw ; And raise pleasure to her height, Through the meanest object's sight; — By the murmur... | |
| lady Emily Charlotte M. Ponsonby - 1852 - 370 pages
...scorn that arms her fair young brow, — The tortured heart beats brokenly below. ft THE SNOWDROP. " Her divine skill taught me this, That from everything I saw I might some invention draw." GEORGE WITHERS. Oh, lonely flower ! oh, lowly, lovely, flower ! Whose nurture... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pages
...walled about with disrespect," the Muse solaced his confinement : — " In my days of former bliss, Her" divine skill taught me this. That from everything I saw I could some invention draw, And raise pleasure to her height Through the meanest object's sight ; By the murmur... | |
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