 | Joseph Pollard - Cairo (Egypt) - 1898 - 530 pages
...above the stone limit, and then the bricks would soon become mud again, and the village disappear. -' Oh ! that the desert were my dwelling-place, With...human race, And, hating no one, love but only her 1 " " Practically," says Eothen, " I think Childe Harold would have found it a dreadful bore to make... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1899 - 332 pages
...vain our mortal race hath run ; 1580 CLXXV CLXXVII Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place,0 1585 With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might...ennobling stir I feel myself exalted — Can ye not i59o Accord me such a being ? 3 Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot 1 Though with them to... | |
 | Henry Theophilus Finck - Love - 1899 - 888 pages
...Graham. Love, well thou know'st no partnerships allows. Cupid averse, rejects divided vows. — 1'rior. O that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair...human race And, hating no one, love but only her. — Byron. BUTTERFLY LOVE The imperative desire for an absolute monopoly of one chosen girl, body and... | |
 | Henry T. Finck - Love - 1899 - 860 pages
...allows. Cupid averse, rejects divided vows. — JVior. O that the desert were my dwelling-place, AVith one fair spirit for my minister, That I might all...human race And, hating no one, love but only her. — Byron. BUTTERFLY LOVE The imperative desire for an absolute monopoly of one chosen girl, body and... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...and sued ; This is to be alone; this, this is solitude! Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no pne, love but only her! Ye Elements! — in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted — Can ye not... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - Literature - 1900 - 604 pages
...friend, foe, — in one red burial blent ! THE OCEAN HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE CANTO IV. Stanzas 177-184 0 THAT the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair...only her ! Ye elements ! — in whose ennobling stir 1 feel myself exalted — Can ye not Accord me such a Being? Do I err In deeming such inhabit many... | |
 | A. F. Slade - 1901 - 388 pages
...Byron usually finds favour in the eyes of youth, if only for his magnificent d1sdain of control. " Oh 1 that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister." " Well, now, I wonder if he ever tried it ? He tried most things. I don't think the desert would be... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...head ? Childe Barold't Pilgrimage. Canto n. Stanza 168. Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place,1 With one fair spirit for my minister, That I might...the human race, And hating no one, love but only her ! stanza 177. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods ; There is a rapture on the louely shore ;... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...head ? Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto it. Stanza 1CS Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place,1 "With one fair spirit for my minister, That I might...the human race, And hating no one, love but only her ! Stanza m. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods ; There is a rapture on the lonely shore ; There... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1188 pages
...head ? Childe. Earold'i Pilgrimage. Canto it. Stanza 1C8. Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place,1 With one fair spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, Aud hating no one, love but only her ! Stanza 177. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods ; There... | |
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Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements! 
