| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 282 pages
...and to look around us (oculo irrctorto) with resolute complacency, and with dignified composure. " I care not, Fortune, what you me deny: You cannot rob me of lair nature's grace; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening... | |
| Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 458 pages
...adventitious enjoyments. Thomson seems to have felt the full force of this principle, when he exclaims: " I care not Fortune! what you me deny ; You cannot...windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face. You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living streair,,... | |
| James Beattie, Thomas Gray - English literature - 1809 - 414 pages
...and rapture, exclaim, * See Rape of the Lock, canto 2. verso 55 ; and Lutrin, chant, 2. verse 10Q. ' I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot...rob me of free Nature's grace; You cannot shut the window^ of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her bright'ning face ; You cannot bar my constant feet... | |
| James Beattie, Thomas Gray - English literature - 1809 - 408 pages
...deny ; . ,... TCeu cannot rob me of free Nature's grace; YiOU cannot shut the windows of the sfcy, . Through which Aurora shows her bright'ning face; You...bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns hy living Mi-cam at eve.* • • Such minds have always in them the seeds of true taste, and frequently... | |
| Henry Kett - 1809 - 348 pages
...Contentment and .Independence thus exprefl'ed^y our favourite poet Thomfon in the Caftle of Indolence; I care not, Fortune, what you me deny, You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace'; , You cannot fhut the windows of the fky, Thro' which Aurora Ihows her beauteous face. You cannot bar my conftant... | |
| 1809 - 914 pages
...he exclaims: flcare not Fortune! \vhat you me deny; . You cannot rob me of free Nature'* |L^ grace; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, ateeve; Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great cUldren leave, Of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...toil, No for the other Muses meed decree, They praised are alone, and starve right merrily. I care-not, Fortune, what you me deny: You cannot rob me of free...Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, [face ; Through which Aurora shows her brightening Yon cannot bar my constant fttt to trace The woods... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...toil, Nc for the other Mnws raced decree. They praised are alone, and starve right merrily. I eare not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me...of free Nature's grace; You cannot shut the windows ot the sky, [fc«sc Through which Aurora shows her brightening You cannot bar my constant feet to trac.o... | |
| 1811 - 450 pages
...necessities furnished a pretext for many other outrages. THE INFLUENCE OF OBJECTS OF NATURE UPON' THE MTKD. I care not, Fortune, what you me deny. You cannot...trace The woods and lawns by living stream at eve. CASTLE OF INDOLENCE. In those vernal seasons of theyear, when the air is soft and pleasant, it were... | |
| William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...noblest toil, ne for the other Muses meed decree, they praised are alone, and starve right merrily. I care not, Fortune, what you me deny: you cannot...windows of the sky, through which Aurora shows her brightening face; you cannot bar my constant feet to trace the woods and lawns, by living stream, at... | |
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