Those metaphors solace me not, nor sweeten the unpalatable draught of mortality. I care not to be carried with the tide, that smoothly bears human life to eternity ; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. I am in love with this green earth ;... Bentley's Miscellany - Page 511edited by - 1857Full view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 608 pages
...pass away like a weaver's shuttle. Those metaphors solace me not, nor sweeten the unpalatable draft of mortality. I care not to be carried with the tide,...; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. / am in lore with this green earth, the face of (own and country, the unspeakable rural solitudes,... | |
| 1835 - 430 pages
...finger upon the spoke of the great wheel. I am not content to pass away "like a weaver's shuttle." Those metaphors solace me not, nor sweeten the unpalatable...mortality. I care not to be carried with the tide, that smootbly bears human life to eternity ; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. I am in love... | |
| 1838 - 1050 pages
...to pass away ' like a weaver's shuttle.' Those metaphors solace me not, nor sweeten the unpalata)le draught of mortality. I care not to be carried with...eternity, and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. [ am in love with this green earth — the face of town and country — the unspeakable rural sob'tudes,... | |
| 1835 - 610 pages
...pass away like a weaver's shuttle. Those metaphors solace me not, nor sweeten the unpalatable draft of mortality. I care not to be carried with the tide, that smoothly hears human life to eternity ; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. I am in love with this... | |
| 1842 - 630 pages
...Virgil. (') Sinnazzaro. (') « He is in love, • to use the exquisite words of Charles Lamb — « he is in love with this" green earth, the face of town • and country, the unspeakable rural solitudes. » But this love, a reverent and thoughtful passion, differs immeasurably from that vain and eager... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - 1847 - 400 pages
...both lessen and shorten, I would fain lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel. — I am in love with this green earth, the face of town...rural solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. — Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holydays, and the greenness of fields,... | |
| 1848 - 734 pages
...finger upon the spoke of the great wheel. I am not content to pass away Mike a weaver's shuttle.' Those metaphors solace me not. nor sweeten the unpalatable...care not to be carried with the tide, that smoothly beare human life to eternity; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny. 1 am in love with this... | |
| 1848 - 722 pages
...finger upon the spoke of the great wheel. I am not content to pass away 'like a weaver's shuttle.' Those metaphors solace me not. nor sweeten the unpalatable draught of mortality. I care not to be carried witli the tide, that smoothly bears human life to eternity; and reluct at the inevitable course of... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 pages
...upon the spoke of the great wheel. I am not content to pass away " like a weaver's shuttle." Those j lore with this green earth ; the face of town and country ; the unspeakable rural solitudes, and the... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...upon the spoke of the great wheel. I am not content to pass away " like a weaver's shuttle." Those metaphors solace me not, nor sweeten the unpalatable...rural solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. 1 would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived —... | |
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