 | Robert Pollok - 1850 - 392 Seiten
...to rise. To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had vent in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.' FOURTEEN years had passed over this happy family, when... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 Seiten
...His ready smile a parent's warmth expressed, Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distressed ; ed disease on Harley's closing life! What murdered...kings protected, and to kings allied ! What, but their blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion skilled to rule, The village master taught... | |
 | John Watson Adams, Joel Parker - 1851 - 378 Seiten
...His ready smile a parent's warmth expressed, Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distressed ; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given,...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.' " Thus prophesies " Your devoted friend, till death,... | |
 | 1920 - 726 Seiten
...introducing Dr. Jordan, President Bryan used the lines of Goldsmith descriptive of the village preacher: As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm. Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Dr. Jordan's address was largely reminiscent of the days... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association, Maryland State Bar Association. Meeting - 1925 - 208 Seiten
...may assume, it will prove to be but a passing blemish on Maryland 's noble mount of law, which ' ' As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. ' ' THE PRESIDENT : The first business before the Association... | |
 | 1898 - 494 Seiten
...to endure, his spirit was above the things of earth, and partook of the light and joys of eternity. "As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form Clear...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." "Since I have worsted you in argument, let us jump at... | |
 | Charles R. Henery - 1995 - 176 Seiten
...warmth express'd, Their welfare pleas'd him and their cares distress'd; To them his heart, his loves, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. The tradition of Herbert lives on, though more eighteenthcentury... | |
 | Helen Jacobus Apte - 1998 - 252 Seiten
...way. The following lines are said to be one of the best examples of metaphor in the English language: "As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." October 25, 1901 Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 Seiten
...His ready smile a parent's warmth expressed, Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distressed; To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given,...Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master... | |
 | Gina Luria Walker - 2005 - 352 Seiten
...by which the ancients are so generally characterized:* she, superior, rose above her contemporaries, "As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sun-shine settles on its head." Goldsmith's Deserted Village (1770) But there is not... | |
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To 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 from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,... 
