| George William D. Evans - 1835 - 496 pages
...Tho' 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 may never hope to share! BYRON. IT was on the evening of... | |
| Sir James Edward Alexander - 1835 - 360 pages
..."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 ! " Here let me give an anecdote regarding... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...race!) Whereon to gaze the eye with joyaunce fills, ChildeHarold wends through many a pleasantplace. (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,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...Hough sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And jnarrel 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. MOR bleak to riew the hills... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 352 pages
...with joyaunce fills, Childe Harold wends through many a pleasant place. Though sluggards deem it hut 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,... | |
| John William Carleton - 1855 - 528 pages
...carrying out — sport that cannot be compassed without earnest effort... How then '. " Though sluzgards 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,... | |
| John Barrow - 1841 - 404 pages
...ourselves, the expressive lines of" Childe Harold," as he — " winds 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,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...race!) Whereon to gaze the eye with joyauuce fills, Childe Harold wends through mauy a pleasant place. his heart believed not — yet foretold ! XX. toilsome way, and long long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...admiral wa> or was not a political martvr, ii treated at large.] В 4 CANTO I. BYRON'S WORKS. CANTO X st Pay orisons for this suspension of disgust * LXIX. The roar of waters ! — from the headlo toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh ! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life,... | |
| George Mogridge - 1844 - 334 pages
...opportunity to wander wide, has enough to fill his bosom with joy, and to occupy his tongue with praise. " 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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