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 on flowers and weeds of glorious feature, To take whatever thing doth please... A History of English Rhythms - Page 359by Edwin Guest - 1838Full view - About this book
| 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...in th' air from earth to highest sky ; To feed on flowres, and weeds of glorious feature , To take whatever thing doth please the eye? Who rests not... | |
| 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...all the works of nature, To reign in th' air from th' earth to highest sky, To feed on flowers and weeds of glorious feature, To take whatever thing... | |
| 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...liberty, And to be lord of all the works of nature That reign in th' air from earth to highest sky, To feed on flower?, and fruits of glorious feature,... | |
| 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... | |
| English literature - 1836 - 570 pages
...— joining either of the three when it suits him, bound fast to none, an object of desire to all : " What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?" He is a creature who has both— whose movements are matters of importance, whose intentions are universally... | |
| 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... | |
| 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...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 taste whatever... | |
| 1832 - 206 pages
...himself embay, And there him rests in riotous suflisance Of all his gladfulness, and kingly joyance. What more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy...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... | |
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