Oh, Christ ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land ! What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree ! What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand... The works of ... lord Byron - Page 15by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818Full view - About this book
| Ellwood Cooper - Eucalyptus - 1876 - 290 pages
...heaven has done for this delicious land ; What flowers of fragrance blush on every tree, What glad'ning prospects o'er the hills expand ! But man would mar them with an impious hand." BTBON. Beyond the plain utilitarian purposes of our forests (some of which I endeavored briefly to... | |
| Ellwood Cooper - 1876 - 248 pages
...heaven has done for this delicious land ; What flowers of fragrance blush on every tree, What glad'ning prospects o'er the hills expand ! But man would mar them with an impious hand." BYBON. Beyond the plain utilitarian purposes of our forests (some of which I endeavored briefly to... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...pilots leap, And steer 'twixt fertile shores where yet few rustics reap. xv. Oh, Christ f it is a'goodly e and war, romance and knightly worth. XLL The lightning...Nor was the ominous element unjust, For the true nn impious hand: And when the Almighty lifts His fiercest scourge 'Gainst those who most transgress... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879 - 290 pages
...on board the Lusian pilots lenp, And steer 'twixt fertile shores where yet few rustics reap. XV. Oh, Christ ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath...impious hand : And when the Almighty lifts His fiercest scour-re 'Gainst those who most transgress His high command, With treble vengeance will His hot shafts... | |
| Alberto Telles - Poets, English - 1879 - 198 pages
...arvores? Que vistas admiraveis se estendem para além do cume dos outeiros! But man would mar ihem with an impious hand : And when the Almighty lifts...his high command, With treble vengeance will his hot shafis urge Gaul's loeust host, and eartk from fellest foemen purge. XVI What beauties doth Lisboa... | |
| Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1888 - 730 pages
...sheep, and of the brooks and rivulets by the way. "It is a goodly sight to see, What heaven has clone for this delicious land. What fruits of fragrance...What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand." But it would require a poet's pen to enlarge upon and do the subject justice; therefore I reluctantly turn... | |
| William Denison Bickham - Americana - 1879 - 194 pages
...country of such a people. The poet might well exclaim when his eye in fine frenzy rolls over it, " Oh Christ, it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land." Most of the numerous villages have a new and flourishing aspect, and the characteristic school 38 house... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...on hoard the Lusian pilots leap, And steer 'twixt fertile shores where yet few rustics reap. XV. Oh, s on the morn to distant Glory dear, When Marathon hecame hlush on every tree ! What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand! But man would mar them with an impious... | |
| Henry Wikoff - Europe - 1880 - 620 pages
...Circassian slave — and he will sit unmoved while centuries revolve. Byron could not help exclaiming, 1 0 Christ ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land.' But Heaven's gifts have been thrown away on the impassible stagnant Turk, who resembles in that respect... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 802 pages
...on board the Lusian pilots leap, And steer 'twixt fertile shores where yet few rustics reap. XV. Oh, [ur?R With treble vengeance will His hot shafts Gaul's locust host, and earth from fellest focmen purge.... | |
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