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 ! ihere is sweetness in the mountain air, And life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share. Portugal Illustrated: In a Series of Letters - Page 230by William Morgan Kinsey - 1828 - 500 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1856 - 722 pages
...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...quit their easy chair, The toilsome way and long long leagues to trace, Oh ! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life, which bloated ease can never... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1812 - 314 pages
...that such hills upheld a freeborn race !) Whereon to gaze the eye with joyaunce fills, Childe Harold wends through many a pleasant place. Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chace, • And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 248 pages
...that such hills upheld a freeborn race!) Whereon to gaze the eye with joyaunce fills, Childe Harold wends through many a pleasant place. 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,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 384 pages
...a freeborn race!) Whereon to gaze the eye with joyaunce fills, Chilcle Harold wends through many u pleasant place. Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel man should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 174 pages
...that such hills upheld a free-born race ! ) 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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 498 pages
...that such hills upheld a freeborn race !) Whereon to gaze the eye with joyaunce fills, Childe Harold wends through many a pleasant place. Though sluggards...The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh ! ihere is sweetness in the mountain air, And life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share. XXXI.... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...with joyanee fills, Childe Harold, wends through many a pleasant place, Though sluggards deem it hut a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their...there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life, that hloated Ease ean never hor^e to share. - * 0 XXXL More hleak to vicw the hills at length recede. And,... | |
| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...that sueh hills upheld a freeborn race!) Whereon to gaze the eye wilh.joyaunce fills, Childe Harold wends through many a pleasant place. Though sluggards...it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit theireasy chair. The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh ! there is sweetness in the mountain... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...that such hills upheld a freeborn race !) Whereon to gaze the eye with joyauncefills, Childe Harold wends through many a pleasant place. Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chace, And marvel men shoutd quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace,... | |
| Hunting - 1827 - 558 pages
...enjoy, like me, (for I am of the same breed,) FISHING in its every character. " Not sluggards though,who deem it but a foolish chase, " And marvel men should quit their easy chair " The marshy way and long long stream to trace. " Oh ! there is sweetness in the meadow »ir, " And life... | |
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