 To reign in the air from earth to highest sky, To feed on flowers and weeds of glorious feature, To take whatever thing doth please the eye ! Who rests not pleased with such happiness, Well worthy he to taste of wretchedness.  The Metropolitan - Page 1171837Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 542 pages
...can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty, And to be lord of all the works of nature ? To reign in the air from earth to highest sky, To...feature, To taste whatever thing doth please the eye f Who rests not pleased with such happiness, Well worthy he to taste of wretchedness ! ' Without air... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 586 pages
...reign in th' air from earth to highest sky : To feed on flowers, and weeds of glorious feature, To take whatever thing doth please the eye ? Who rests not...happiness, Well worthy he to taste of wretchedness ! ' If we could but once realise this idea of a butterfly-critic extracting sweets from flowers and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 624 pages
...creature Than to enjoy Delight with Liberty, And to be lord of all the works of Nature, To reign in th" air from earth to highest sky : To feed on flowers, and weeds of glorious feature, To take whatever thing doth please the eye ? Who rests not pleased with such happiness, Well worthy he... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1904 - 540 pages
...can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty, And to be lord of all the works of nature ? To reign in the air from earth to highest sky ; To...taste whatever thing doth please the eye? — Who resti not pleased with such happiness, Well worthy he to taste of wretchedness ! ' This is gorgeous... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 360 pages
...can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty, And to be lord of all the works of nature ? To reign in the air from earth to highest sky, To feed on flowers and weeds of glorious feature, To take whatever thing doth please the eye? Who rests not pleased with such happiness, Well worthy he... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 356 pages
...reign in the air from earth to highest sky, To feed on flowers and weeds of glorious feature, To take whatever thing doth please the eye? Who rests not...happiness, Well worthy he to taste of wretchedness." The " Muiopotmos " pleases us all the more that it vibrates in us a string of classical association... | |
 | Emile Legouis - 1926 - 164 pages
...enjoy delight with liberty, And to be Lord of all the works of Nature, To reign hi th' air from th' earth to highest sky, To feed on flowers and weeds of glorious feature. To take whatever thing doth please the eye ? Who rests not pleased with such happiness, Well worthy he... | |
 | Yee Chiang - 1964 - 298 pages
...creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty, And to be Lord of all the works of Nature, To reign in th" air from earth to highest sky, To feed on flowers and weeds of glorious feature?'1 Spenser's dream was perhaps more a poet's than a philosopher's paradise! At the outset,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1832 - 624 pages
...the aire from th' earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres, and weedes of glorious feature f To take whatever thing doth please the eye ? Who rests not...happiness, Well worthy he to taste of wretchedness." Amen, thou most satisfying of poets ! But when are human beings to be as well off in that matter as... | |
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