That first excites desire, and then supplies. Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, \ Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame : Their level life... Miscellaneous poems. Dramatic poems - Страница 45по Oliver Goldsmith - 1820Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 страници
...gallant and enlightened people, entitled to a very high rank in the scale of European civilization : " Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, " To fill the languid pause with finer joy." Where particular circumstances, indeed, have given any encouragement, among rude tribes, to the pacific... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 страници
...few : bince every want that stimulates the breast. Becomes a souree of pleasure when redrest. Hence from such lands each pleasing science flies, That...supplies; Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To till the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 страници
...advantages of an inferior degree of civilization. "If few their wants, their pleasures are bat few ; Unknown to them when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy." Goldsmith has introduced himself into one of his landscapes, in which he alludes to the manner in which... | |
| 1843 - 832 страници
...enjoymeut; as far as it serves to prevent gross debauchery ; and, as one of our poets has expressed it, " When sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy," it should be encouraged. It does not follow, because the materials for luxury are wanted, that the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 страници
...few; For every want that stimulates the breast, Becomes a source of pleasure when reel rest: Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies, That...vibrate through the frame. Their level life is but a smouldering fire, Unquenched by want, unfanned by strong desire; Unfit for raptures, or, if raptures... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 страници
...but few; For every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest. Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies, That...To fill the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown 'hose powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame. Their... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 страници
...few ; For every want that stimulates the breast, Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest, - Whence, from such lands each pleasing science flies, That...pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy ; Uuknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frqme.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 страници
...few ; For every want that stimulates the breast, Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest ; Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies, That...vibrate through the frame. Their level life is but a smouldering fire, Unquench'd by want, unfann'd by strong desire ; Unfit for raptures, or, if raptures... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 314 страници
...but few; For ev'ry want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest: Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies, That...fill the languid pause with finer joy; Unknown those pow'rs that raise the soul to flame, Catch ev'ry nerve, and vibrate through the frame. Their level... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 страници
...few ; For every want that stimulates the breast, Becomes a source of pleasure when redressed. Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies, That...; Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To 611 the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every... | |
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