| C. E. de Haas - Country life in literature - 1928 - 334 pages
...in the town. Then they are prepared for solitude. Dryden, Prose Works, ed. Malone. Vol. III, p. 420. I care not, Fortune, what you me deny: You cannot...shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shews her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living... | |
| American essays - 1864 - 804 pages
...brimming over with the poet's passion for the country : it is from " The Castle of Indolence " : — " I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot...trace The woods and lawns, by living stream at eve: * Lettre XI. Liv. IV. NouteUt Ucluitt. Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toy»... | |
| American essays - 1864 - 804 pages
...passion for the country : it is from " The Castle of Indolence " : — " I care not, Fortune, what yon me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace;...trace The woods and lawns, by living stream at eve: • Lettre XL Liv. IV. Nouvelli Uelout. 1864.] Wet -Weather Work. [May, Let health my nerves and finer... | |
| Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - Authors and printing - 1996 - 258 pages
...Landscape on a Convex Mirror," and adds: Thomson in that most lovely Poem, the Castle of Indolence, says I care not, Fortune, what you me deny, You cannot...cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which the Morning shows her dewy face; You cannot bar my constant feet to rove Through wood and vale, by... | |
| Brook Thomas - English literature - 1998 - 342 pages
...had completely given the lie to the Poet Thomson, when in a strain of profound enthusiasm he boasts; I care not, Fortune, what you me deny: You cannot...constant feet to trace The woods and lawns by living streams, etc. The windows of the sky were not shut, indeed, but the business was done more thoroughly;... | |
| Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 840 pages
...which set riches at scorn, and make even a poor man independent: " 1 care not, Fortune, what you do deny: You cannot rob me of free nature's grace; You...windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her bright'ning face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns by living streams at... | |
| Ann Radcliffe - Fiction - 2001 - 708 pages
...the most melancholy evenings they had yet passed together, they separated for the night. CHAPTER VI 'I care not, Fortune! what you me deny; You cannot...shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shews her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living... | |
| James Beattie - Philosophy, Scottish - 2004 - 216 pages
...ambition are not the infirmities of that period, would, with equal sincerity and rapture, exclaim, I care not, fortune, what you me deny; You cannot...trace The woods and lawns by living stream at eve. 7 Such minds have always in them the seeds of true taste, and frequently of imitative genius. At least,... | |
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