 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...ibid. Lint ult. For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around. And still I seem to tread on classic ground.* A Letter from Italy. The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens,... | |
 | Henry Irwin Jenkinson - Carlisle (England) - 1875 - 346 pages
...green sward on the bank of the river and through as charming a dell as it is possible to imagine. " Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground." Presently, at a bend in the glen, the Popping Stone is reached, where Sir Walter Scott is said to have... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...walks of every day deceased, And smiles an angel, or a fury frowns. YOUNG: Night Thoughts. POETRY. Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. ADDISON. Methinks heroic poesy, till now, Like some fantastic fairy-land did show. COWLEY. He loved... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...with rhyme For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes. Gay gilded scenes and shilling prospects rise, e is with envy curs'd, And the best men are treated like the worst, !>o thou, ; For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung, Renown'd... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1877 - 302 pages
...with rhyme. For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground ; For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung, llenowned... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...Ground. — For wheresoever I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around. And still I seem to tread on CLASSIC GROUND. AMHSON, Leiter from Italy. Clay. — The precious porcelain of human CLAV. — BYRON, Don Juan. Cleanliness.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...walks of every day deceased, And smiles an angel, or a fury frowns. YOUNG: Night Thoughts. POETRY. Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. ADDISON. Methinks heroic poesy, till now, Like some fantastic fairy-land did show. COWI.EY. He loved... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...from Italy.' For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shming prospects rise ; Poetic fields encompass me around. And still I seem to tread on classic ground ; (1) For here the muse so oft her harp lias strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung ; Renowned... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...MalfyJTAL Y. FOR whereso'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground ; For here the muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung, Renowned... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...common language: For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes. Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rice; Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. Addison's fame as a great poet must rest most firmly on the magnificent expressions of human dignity... | |
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For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground... 
