| John Bell - 1788 - 628 pàgines
...and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sorting with my present state compar'd ! zoo When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Poiumel11. B Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public... | |
| 1789 - 214 pàgines
...XVII. 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 bewilder'd stream To deep... | |
| John Bell - 1789 - 416 pàgines
...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; but to the forest sped ; Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head ; Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream ".>•»... | |
| James Beattie - 1797 - 150 pàgines
...XVII. 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 bewilder'd stream To deep... | |
| 1801 - 618 pàgines
...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, but to the forest sped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head ; Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream To deep... | |
| John Blair Linn - 1802 - 196 pàgines
...his great powers. Of him the poet might have said: " Concourse and noise and toil he ever fled, Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous 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,... | |
| James Beattie - 1802 - 152 pàgines
...XVII. 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 maize of some bewilder'd stream To... | |
| 1802 - 302 pàgines
...• '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 mai/e of some bew ilder'd stream To... | |
| James Beattie - 1803 - 190 pàgines
...XVII. 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 roamed at large the lonely mountain's head ; Or, where the maze of some bewildered stream To deep... | |
| 1804 - 646 pàgines
...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, but to the forest sped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head ; ' Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream To deep... | |
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