 No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn, Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : " But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring ; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring....  The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 38by Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 254 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 854 pages
...Northern Sweden. * Said to be a mountain near Quito, Ecuador. "But from the mountain's grassy side as licates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, 80 Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long." Soft as the dew from heaven descends,... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 858 pages
...freely share Whate'er my cell bestows, My rushy couch and frugal fare, My blessing and repose. 20 "No , and still return'd to weep. The good old sire th<? first prepar'd to go 371 * Possibly the river Tornea, flowing into the Gulf of Bothnia; or Lake Tomca in Northern Sweden. '... | |
 | 1915 - 368 pages
...Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, — how exquisite the bliss ! — BUBNS Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them. — GOLDSMITH *T is a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 pages
...freely share Whate'er my cell bestows ; My rushy couch and frugal fare, My blessing and repose. ' ' No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn...from the spring. " Then, pilgrim, turn ; thy cares forgo ; All earth-born cares are wrong : Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long."... | |
 | Thomas Fletcher Royds - 1918 - 170 pages
...Georg. iii. 515 ; and Ovid, Met. xv. 72 el sqq., a passage dear to all antikreophagous scholars. ' No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn...herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring.' (The Vicar of Wakefield, ch. viii.) aureus hanc vitam in terris Saturnus agebat ; necdum etiam audierant... | |
 | Philadelphia Bible-Christian church. Maintenance committee - 1922 - 240 pages
...Goldsmith's eloquent and humane poem, with the faith' that sometime, somewhere, the universe will sing: " No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn; Taught by the Power that pities me I learn to pity them." CHAPTEE II MEMBEKS Name Almond, John Joseph " William... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. GEORGE ELIOT— MM mi the Floss. Bk. VII. Ch. I. 8 heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is GOLDSMITH — Hermit. St. 6. 7 La plaincte et la commiseration sent meslees a quelque estimation de... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 pages
...couch and frugal fare, My blessing and repose. "No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter 1 condemn ; Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn...forego; All earth-born cares are wrong : Man wants lint little here below, Nor wants that litlle long." Soft as the dew from heaven descends, His gehtle... | |
 | 1875 - 478 pages
...their natural repugnance to man, and disporting in the joyousness of natural freedom. Edwin says well, 'Taught by that Power that ' pities me, I learn to pity them.' But Angelina — alongside in the aforesaid punt, with a worm wriggling at the end of a line, with a perch... | |
 | 1867 - 856 pages
...eating, and that the jaded men who minister there to our pampered appetites demand only for themselves " A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring." Turning from this thought to the purchase of my hat, I do not believe that literary art can interest... | |
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