 Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to LIBERTY, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle or chymic power...  The Novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ... - Page 244by Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 659 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...till Nature herself shall change. No tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle, or cheraic power tarn thy sceptre into iron: — with thee to smile upon...from whose court thou art exiled. Gracious heaven ! grant me but health, thou Great Bestower of it, and give me but this fair goddess as my companion;... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...will be so, till Nature herself shall change. No tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle, or chemic power turn thy sceptre into iron; — with thee to...from whose court thou art exiled. Gracious Heaven ! grant me but health, thou Great JBestower of it, and give me but this fair goddess as my companion,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...ever will be so, till nature herself shall change. No tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle, nor chymic power turn thy sceptre into iron. With thee...one in my ascent, " grant me but health, thou great bestower of it, and give me but this fair goddess as my companion, and shower down the mitres, if it... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...will be so, till Nature herself shall change : no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle, or chemic power turn thy sceptre into iron : with thee to smile...one in my ascent, grant me but health, thou great bestower of it, and give me but this fair goddess as my companion, and shower down thy mitres, if it... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1870 - 262 pages
...will be so, till nature herself shall change ; no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle, or chemic power turn thy sceptre into iron ; with thee to smile...one in my ascent, " grant me but health, thou great bestower of it, and give me but this fair goddess as my companion, and shower down thy mitres, if it... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...ever will be so, till Nature herself shall change. No lint of words can spot thy snowy mantle, nor chymic power turn thy sceptre into iron. With thee...happier than his monarch, from whose court thou art eifled. Gracious Heaven ! " cried I, kneeling down upon the last step but one in my ascent, " grant... | |
 | Laurence Sterne, David Herbert - Authors, English - 1872 - 512 pages
...will be so, till Nature herself shall change. No tint of words can sput thy snowy mantle, nor chemic power turn thy sceptre into iron ; — with thee,...one in my ascent, grant me but health, thou great Bestower of it, —and give me but this fair goddess as my companion, — and shower down thy mitres,... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...so, till nature herself shall change; no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle, or chemic power can turn thy sceptre into iron; with thee to smile upon...one in my ascent, " grant me but health, thou great bestower of it, and give me but this fair goddess as my companion, and shower down thy mitres, if it... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1872 - 174 pages
...ever will be so, till nature herself shall change. No tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle, nor chymic power turn thy sceptre into iron. With thee...than his monarch, from whose court thou art exiled. 6. Calm is the noon of day. Over the green hill flies the inconstant sun. Red, through the stony vale,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1873 - 440 pages
...systematic reasonings upon the Bastile ; and I heavily walk'd up stairs, unsaying every word I had said in going down them. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still,...one in my ascent, grant me but health, thou great Bestower of it, and give me but this fair goddess as my companion, — and shower down thy mitres,... | |
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