 Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And Life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.  Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail - Page 12de Francis Parkman - 1910 - 363 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
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...drawbacks, yet it is a marvellously pleasant life, that of the free ranger of the hills and moors — " Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way and long long leagues to trace, Oh ! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life,... | |
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...Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chace, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace ; Oh ! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share!' In passing from the Portugueze... | |
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...sluggards deem it but a foolish chace, • And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh ! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share. XXXL More bleak to view the hills... | |
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...!) Whereon to gaze the eye with joyaunce fills, Childe Harold wends through many a pleasant place. Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh ! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life,... | |
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...Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chace, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh ! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share. XXXI. More bleak to view the hills... | |
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...race!) Whereon to gaze the eye with joyaunce fills, Childe Harold wends through many a pleasant place. Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh ! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life,... | |
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...race!) Whereon to gaze the eye with joyaunce fills, Childe Harold wends through many a pleasant place. Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh ! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life,... | |
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...! ) Whereon to gaze the eye with joy'ance filfs, Childe Harold wends through many a pleasant place, Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should duit their easy ohair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in... | |
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...!) Whereon to gaze the eye with joyaunce fills, Childe Harold werids through many a pleasant place Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh ! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life,... | |
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