 | 1838 - 884 pages
...poets, Byron alone has fitly sung the sea. Let us recite the celebrated close of Childe Harold. " Oh I that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair...the human race And, hating no one, love but only her I Ye Elements ! — in whose ennobling stir 1 feel myself exalted — Can ye not Accord mo such a being... | |
 | 1848 - 788 pages
...sea, joy almost as dear As if there were no man to trouble what is clear. VOL. LXIV NO. CCCXCVI. 2 K " Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place With one...minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, bating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements ! — in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 520 pages
...the author toucbel upon a subject on which he never fails to be eloquent :— " Oh ! that the Desart were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my...human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements!—in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted—Can ye not Accord me such a being ? Do... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1818 - 500 pages
...inexcusable were we lo omit the following beautiful lines : ' • Oh that the Desert were my dwelling pUor , With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, haling no one, love but only her ! Yc Elements! — in whose ennobling stk' 1 tee! myself exalted —... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...clear. CLXXVII. Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling place , ( With one fair Spirit for my minister _ 1 That I might all forget the human race , And, hating...myself exalted — Can ye not Accord me such a being , Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot ? Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...reap from earth, sea, joy almost as dear As if there were no man to trouble what is clear. CLXXVII. Oh! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one...all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love buLonly her! Ye Elements! in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted — Can ye not Accord me such... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...if there were no man to trouble what is clear. CLXXVII. Oh ! that the Desart were my dwelling place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might...myself exalted — Can ye not Accord me such a being ? Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot ? Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...there were no man to trouble what is clear." CLXXVII. Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might...myself exalted — Can ye not Accord me such a being > Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot ? Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot.... | |
 | 1821 - 746 pages
...publisher, in the common Roman market place. He had but just invoked " the desart &r his dwelling place," the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass Childe Harold, Canto 4. all this is very touching — at least it is intended to be so: but if it be... | |
 | 1821 - 656 pages
...that day, all that night, the over-consciousness of thought sticking in us like pins and needles. " Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister." But ladies won't go into the desert even to spend the honey-moon ; and if the fair spirits won't go... | |
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Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements ! — in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted — Can ye not Accord me... 
