 | Edmund Burke - 1772 - 656 pages
...wife, and fome believed him mad. But why mould I his childifh feats difplay ? Concourfe, and noife, and toil, he ever fled ; Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of fquabbling imps ; but to the foreft fped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head ; Or, where... | |
 | 1785 - 316 pages
....and fomc believ'd him mad. XVII. But why fhould I his childifh feats difplay ? Concourfe and noife, and toil he ever fled ; Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of fquabbling imps, but to the foreft fped, Or, roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head ; Or, where... | |
 | 1789 - 214 pages
...deem'd him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad. XVII. But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled ; Nor...forest sped ; Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head ; Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream To deep untrodden groves his footsteps led, There... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 416 pages
...should I his childish feats display ? __ . Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled; Nor cired to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps;...forest sped ; Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head ; Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream ".>•» To deep untrodden groves his footsteps... | |
 | James Beattie - 1797 - 150 pages
...him wond'rous wise, and some believ'd him mad. XVII. But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled ; Nor...forest sped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head ; Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream To deep untrodden groves his footsteps led, There... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - 1798 - 294 pages
...*j -..I-'1 -'.i •••'-:'• • • •'/• .M LJ £.-. CHAP. Jit. ' *' Concourfe, and noife, and toil he ever fled, Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of i'quabblhig imps ; but to the foreft fped, " Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain head ; Or where... | |
 | 1801 - 618 pages
...But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled; Nor car'd to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps,...forest sped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head ; Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream To deep untrodden groves his footsteps led, There... | |
 | 1802 - 302 pages
...wondrous wise, and some believed him mad. XVII. • 'But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled ; Nor...forest sped ; Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head ; Or, where the mai/e of some bew ilder'd stream To deep untrodden groves his footsteps led, There... | |
 | James Beattie - 1802 - 152 pages
...deem'd him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad. XVII. But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled ; Nor...forest sped ; Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head ; Or, where the maize of some bewilder'd stream To deep untrodden groves his footsteps led, There... | |
 | John Blair Linn - 1802 - 196 pages
...discovered in some measure while a school boy, his great powers. Of him the poet might have said: " Concourse and noise and toil he ever fled, Nor cared...fray Of squabbling imps ; but to the forest sped." ....It is related of Michael Angelo that he employed himself when a child, in drawing with a coal,... | |
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But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse, and noise, and toil he ever fled ; Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps; but to the forest sped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head, Or, where the maze of some... 
