 | John Bell - 1789 - 416 pages
...breast alternate passions rise, Pleas'd with each good that heaven to man supplies : Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall, To see the hoard of human bliss so small ; And oft I wish, amidst the scene, to find Some spot to real happiness consign'd, Where my worn soul,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...breast alternate passions rise, Pleas'd with each good that heav'n to man supplies: Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall, To see the hoard of human bliss so small; And oft I wish, amidst the scene, to find Some spot to real happiness consign'd, Where my worn soul,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...breast alternate passions rise, Pleas'd with each good that Heaven to man supplies ; Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall, To see the hoard of human bliss so small; \ And oft I wish, amidst the scene, to find Some spot to real happiness consign'd, Where my worn soul,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pages
...breast alternate passions rise, Pleas'd with each good that heav'n to man supplies: Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall, To see the hoard of human bliss so small ; And oft I wish, amidst the scene, to find Some spot to real happiness consign'd, Where my worn soul,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...breast alternate passions rise, Pleas'd with each good that Heaven to man supplies: Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall, To see the hoard of human bliss so small; And oft I wish, amidst the scene, to find Some spot to real happiness consign'd, \\ftiere my worn soul,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...breast alternate passions rise, Pleas'd with each good that Heav'n to man supplies; Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall, To see the hoard of human bliss so small ; And oft I wish, amidst the scene, to rind Some spot to real happiness consign'd, Where my worn soul,... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...breast alternate passions rise, Pleas'd with each good that Heaven to man. supplies ; Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall, To see the hoard of human bliss so small; And oft I wish, amidst the scene to find Some spot to real happiness consign'd, Where my worn soul,... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...breast alternate passions rise, Pleas'd with each good that Heuv'n to man supplier ;. Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall, To see the hoard of human bliss so small . And oft 1 wish, amidst the scene, to find Some spot to real happiness consign'd, Where my worn soul,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...breast alternate passions rise, Pleas'd with each good that heaven to man supplies : Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall, To see the hoard of human bliss so small ; And oft I wish, amidst the scene to find Some spot to real happiness consign' d, Where my worn soul,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 pages
...breast alternate passions rise, Pleas'd with each good that Heaven to man supplies: Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall, To see the hoard of human bliss so small; And oft I wish, amidst the scene, to find Some spot to real happiness consign'd, Where my worn soul,... | |
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As some lone miser, visiting his store, Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o'er; Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill, Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still? Thus to my breast alternate passions rise, Pleas'd with each good... 
