 | Michael Bruce - 1770 - 144 pages
...goal Of human life, where drooping, faint, and tir'd. Oft mifs'd the prize, the weary racer refts. THUS fung the youth, amid unfertile wilds And namelefs...thus The dear remembrance of his native fields, To chearthe tedious night ; while flow difeafe Prey'd on his pining vitals, and the blafts Of dark DECEMBER... | |
 | 1795 - 1334 pages
...circumilances in which it WM written, ¡» ;l* fuKuv. lug lines, at the conclunon : THE LIFE OF BRUCE. Far from his friends he ftray'd, recording thus The...remembrance of his native fields, To cheer the tedious nicht ; while flow diïeafe d on Kis pining vitals, and the blafls Of dirk December Ihook hi« humble... | |
 | Natham Drake - English literature - 1800 - 510 pages
...youth, amid unfertile fields And nameless deserts, unpoetic ground! Far from his friends he stray 'd, recording thus The dear remembrance of his native fields To cheer the tedious night; while slow disease Prey'd on his pining vitals, and the blasts Of dark December shook his humble cot. . :... | |
 | American literature - 1804 - 496 pages
...youth, amid unfertile, fields And nameless deserts, unpoetic ground ! Far from his friendr. he stray'd, recording thus The dear remembrance of his native fields To cheer the tedious nig':: ; while slow disease PrevM on his pining vitals, and tlie blasts Of dark Ilscem'jtr shook las... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...youth, amid unfertile wilds And nameless deserts, unpoetic ground! Far from his friends he stray'd, recording thus The dear remembrance of his native fields, To cheer the tedious night; while slow disease Prey'd on his pining vitals, and the blasts Of dark December shook his humble cot. PASSAGE... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...He was now composing his poem on Lochleven, in which he describes himself, " Amid unfertile wilds, recording thus The dear remembrance of his native fields, To cheer the tedious night, while slow disease Prey'd on his pining vitals, and the blasts Of dark December shook his humble cot." During... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 636 pages
...youth, amid unfertile wilds And nameless deserts, unpoetic ground ! Far from his friends he srray'd, recording thus The dear remembrance of his native fields, To cheer the tedious night ; while slow disease Prey'd on his pining vitals, and the blasts Of dark December shook his humble cot." '... | |
 | 1820 - 496 pages
...youth, aro'ul unfertile wilds And nameless deserts, unpoetje ground ! Far ftnm his friends he stray'd, recording thus The dear remembrance of his native fields, To cheer the tedious night ; while slow disrate Prey'd on his pining vitals, and the blasts Of dark December shook his humble eat.' I).... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 346 pages
...jonth, amid unfertile wilds And nameless deserts, nnpoetic ground! Far from bis friends he straj'd, recording thus The dear remembrance of his native fields, To cheer the tedious night; while slow disease Prey'd on his pining vitals, and the blasts Of dark December shook his humble cot! Those... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...delirium." He was-now composing his poem on Lochleven, in which he describes himself, "Amid unfertile wilds, recording thus The dear remembrance of his native fields, To cheer the tedious night, while slow disease PreyM on his pining vitals, and the blasts Of dark December shook his humble cot." During... | |
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Thus sung the youth, amid unfertile wilds And nameless deserts, unpoetic ground ! Far from his friends he stray'd, recording thus The dear remembrance of his native fields, To cheer the tedious night ; while slow disease Prey'd on his pining vitals, and... 
