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" As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. "
An Essay on Light Reading: As it May be Supposed to Influence Moral Conduct ... - Page 174
by Edward Mangin - 1808 - 213 pages
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...his serious thoughts had rest in heav'u. At some tall cliff that lifts its awful form , Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. GOLDSMITH. C CHAP. VI. The Wish. parent of delight',...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...them his heart, his love, his .griefs were given. But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form. Swells...storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles ou its head. Beside yon straggling; fence that skirts the way, With...
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Polyanthos, Volume 3

1806 - 310 pages
...free translation, than an allowable tiop. " ' As some tall c/iffthat lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm ; Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread^ Eternal sunshine settles on its nead. • ut altus Olyirfpi Vertex, qui spatto ventos hiemesque...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...5 His ready »mile a parent'8 warmth exprest, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares distrest ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were giv'n....storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. GOLDSMITH. CHAP. VI. THE WISH. CONTENTMENT, parent of...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 5

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pages
...higher region, where all is pure, and clear, and serene, free from perturbation and discomposure : As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm ; Tho" round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head Here then, on this august eminence, let us build the temple...
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The muses' bower, embellished with the beauties of English poetry, Volume 3

English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...smile. His ready smile a parent's warmth exprest, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their care distrest; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were giv'n,...storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way. With...
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The Baltimore Reportory, of Papers on Literary and Other Topics, Volume 1

1811 - 450 pages
...serious thoughts had rest in Heav'n. " Ai some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, " Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, " Tho' round its breast the rolling clonds are spread, " Eternal sunshine settles oh its head." light that we naturally experience from...
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A Geographical and Historical View of the World: Exhibiting a ..., Volume 1

John Bigland, Jedidiah Morse - 1812 - 470 pages
...Wales. The truth, and the description of it, are thus exactly given in the poetry of Goldsmith j " As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, " Swells...storm, " Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, " Eternal sunshine settles on its head." The clouds, indeed, seem sometimes to issue from the...
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A New Pronouncing Spelling Book, and Concise Expositor of the English ...

James M'Donald - 1815 - 170 pages
...them his heart, his love, his griefs were giv'n, But all his serious thoughts had rest it. Heav'ii. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form. Swells...storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, .Eternal sanshine settles on its head._ v THE BEGGAR'S PETITIOH. PITY the sorrows of a poor...
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The Poetical Works, Complete, of Oliver Goldsmith ... with Some Account of ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 pages
...-' : His ready smile a parent's warmth exprest, Their welfare pleas'd him, and their cares distrest: To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were giv'n,...storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With...
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