| English poetry - 1788 - 510 pages
...himself embay, And there him rests in riotous suffisance Of all his gladfulness and kingly joyance. What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty, no And to be lord of all the works of Nature, To reign in th' air from earth to highest sky ; To feed... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...embay, And there him rests in riotous sirffisance * */ Of all his gladfulness and kingly joyance. • 'What more felicity can fall to 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... | |
| English literature - 1836 - 570 pages
...all parties — and this the cunning know. Independence is nothing more than a sense of dependance suppressed — as contentment is the art of hiding...whose intentions are universally speculated upon. Every body is curious about his opinion on the subject, because it is only to be guessed at ; everybody... | |
| John Clare - English poetry - 1821 - 258 pages
...than the rarely found, unbought, unpurchasable endowment of genius from the hand of the Creator. " What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty, And to be lord of all the works of nature, To reign in th' air from th' earth to highest sky, To feed... | |
| Miss Stockdale (Mary R.) - 1821 - 474 pages
...remaiu ,fvir ever within." Bedford now entered, and the carriages were announced. . .,i CHAPTER XX. * ; What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty, ,. . .i.ii And to be lord of all the works of nature / •.• That reign in th' air from earth to... | |
| Mary R. Sterndale - 1821 - 886 pages
...excellence will remain for ever within." Bedford now entered, ami the carriages were announced. CHAPTER XX. What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty, And to be lord of all the works of nature That reign in th' air from earth to highest sky, To feed... | |
| 1822 - 600 pages
...they offered. Indeed, on my repeating the lines from Spencer in an involuntary fit of enthusiasm, " What more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty ?" my last-named ingenious friend stopped me by saying that this, translated into the vulgate, meant... | |
| 1822 - 496 pages
...journey down. — Indeed, on my repeating the lines from Spenser in an involuntary fit of enthusiasm, " What more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty ?" my ingenious friend stopped me by saying that this, translated into the vulgate. meant " Going to... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 612 pages
...they offered. Indeed, on my repeating the lines from Spenser in an involuntary fit of enthusiasm, " What more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty ?" • my last-named ingenious friend stopped me by saying that this, trans • lated into the vulgate,... | |
| William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 482 pages
...far from indulging or even tolerating the strain of exulting enthusiasm expressed by Spenser : — " What more felicity 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... | |
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