 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...the devastation is begun, And half the bus'ness ot destruction done; E'en now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anch'ring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with ev'ry gale, Downward they move, a melancholy... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...the devastation is begun, And half the bus'ness of destruction done: Fv'n now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anch'ring vessels spread the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; E'en now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, • I see the rural virtues leave the...anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...a ruin round. " E'en now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; E'en now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the...vessel spreads the sail, That, idly waiting, flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...devastation is begun, And half the bus'ness of destruction done ; E'en now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anch'ring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with ev'ry gale, Downward they move, a melancholy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...begun, And half the business of destruction done ; Even now, mi-thinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I sec the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the sliore, and darken all the strand.... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...devastation is begun, And half the bus'ness of destruction done : Ev'n now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anch'ring vessels spread the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy... | |
 | William Gilpin - England - 1808 - 338 pages
...fland, I fee the rural virtues leave the land : Down, where yon anchoring veflel fpreads the fail, That idly waiting, flaps in every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pafs from the more, and darken all the ftrand. But thefe emigrants were of a different kind. Many of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction clone ; Ev'n now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land....anchoring vessel spreads the sail That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand.... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; Ev'n now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land....anchoring vessel spreads the sail That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand.... | |
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Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land: Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all... 
