 I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream,...  The London Quarterly Review - Page 2901811Full view - About this book
 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 458 pages
...adventitious enjoyments. Thomson seems to have felt the full force of this principle, when he exclaims: " I care not Fortune! what you me deny ; You cannot...Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face. You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods... | |
 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - 1809 - 414 pages
...and rapture, exclaim, * See Rape of the Lock, canto 2. verso 55 ; and Lutrin, chant, 2. verse 10Q. ' I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot...rob me of free Nature's grace; You cannot shut the window^ of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her bright'ning face ; You cannot bar my constant feet... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1809 - 348 pages
...Contentment and .Independence thus exprefl'ed^y our favourite poet Thomfon in the Caftle of Indolence; I care not, Fortune, what you me deny, You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace'; , You cannot fhut the windows of the fky, Thro' which Aurora Ihows her beauteous face. You cannot bar my conftant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...toil, No for the other Muses meed decree, They praised are alone, and starve right merrily. I care-not, Fortune, what you me deny: You cannot rob me of free...Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, [face ; Through which Aurora shows her brightening Yon cannot bar my constant fttt to trace The woods... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...toil, Nc for the other Mnws raced decree. They praised are alone, and starve right merrily. I eare not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me...of free Nature's grace; You cannot shut the windows ot the sky, [fc«sc Through which Aurora shows her brightening You cannot bar my constant feet to trac.o... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...noblest toil, ne for the other Muses meed decree, they praised are alone, and starve right merrily. I care not, Fortune, what you me deny: you cannot...Nature's grace ; you cannot shut the windows of the sky, through which Aurora shows her brightening face; you cannot bar my constant feet to trace the woods... | |
 | 1811 - 450 pages
...necessities furnished a pretext for many other outrages. THE INFLUENCE OF OBJECTS OF NATURE UPON' THE MTKD. I care not, Fortune, what you me deny. You cannot...Nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky Through which Aurora shows her brightning face; . You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1811 - 486 pages
...but of necessary, or at least salutary, rat. P. 35. Fortune is mode the disposer of men's affairs : I care not, Fortune ! what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace. P. 47. Is The Midsummer Wish, consisting of the five first MORNING AND EVENING, " Say, sweet carol... | |
 | David Stewart Erskine (11th Earl of Buchan), David Stewart Erskine Earl of Buchan - 1812 - 418 pages
...intellectual delight, and in endeavouring to display the neglected fame of others that deserve it. " I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; "You cannot...rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windo\vs of the sky, Through which Aurora shews her brightening face ; The woods and lawns, by living... | |
 | Benjamin Frere - 1813 - 424 pages
...enthusiastically aloud this stanza from.Thompson's Castle of Indolence. : 1 care not, Fortune, what jou me deny, You cannot rob me of free nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shews her bright'ning fate; You cannot bar my const, ml feet to trace The woods... | |
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