| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...I ) Whereon to gaze the eye with joyaunce fills, Childe Harold wends through many a pleasant p'aoe. 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,... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...and grief hath known, Of hope laid waste, knells in that word — alone ! New Timon. ALPINE TBAVEL. 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 - 1867 - 460 pages
...told that their tones were correspondent tc 'heir spiel dor. Mafra 10 termed the Escurial of Portugal. 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,... | |
| John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...hills, (Oh, that such hills upheld a freeborn race !) 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... | |
| William Smith (F.S.A.S.) - 1868 - 228 pages
...favourite poet he felt that, his brief wanderings had led him, — " 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, Yet, there is sweetuess in the mountain air, And life,... | |
| Mme. Augustus Craven - 1868 - 536 pages
...after boundless space and freedom, a sort of indication of our eternal destiny ? Byron says : — * " '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... | |
| 1868 - 864 pages
...Though sluggards deem it but an idle 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." The mighty angler,- — the triton... | |
| Anthony Trollope - 1868 - 340 pages
...Though sluggards deem it but an idle 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." The mighty angler, — the triton... | |
| 1868 - 794 pages
...Though, sluggards deem it but an idle 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 Ufe that bloated case can never hope to share." The mighty angler,—the triton among... | |
| John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 pages
...him. Weariness Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth Finds the down-pillow hard. SlIAKSPEARE, 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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