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" 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, that bloated Ease can never hope to share. "
The classic and connoisseur in Italy and Sicily, with an appendix containing ... - Page 1
by George William D. Evans - 1835
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Scottish Sports and Pastimes ...

Herbert Byng Hall - 1850 - 294 pages
...double vigour, when the sky above is clear, the air light, and all nature smiling around him ? " The sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel...sweetness in the mountain air, And life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share." i, 2 CHAPTER VIII. OUB object in selecting the route we did, in order to...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 pages
...Whereon to gaze the eye with joyaunce fills, Childe Harold wends through many a pleasant place. Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel...sweetness in the mountain air, And life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share. XXXI. More bleak to view the hills at length recede, And, less luxuriant,...
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Notes of Foreign Travel

Jacob B. Wood - 1852 - 192 pages
... FOREIGN TEAYEL BY JB WOOD, o Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel...sweetness in the mountain air, And life, that bloated ease can never hope to share. BYRON'S CHILDE HAROLD. NEW YORK: McSPEDON & BAKER, PRINTERS, 1852. THK XE\V...
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Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life; Or, The California and Oregon Trail ...

Francis Parkman - 1852 - 462 pages
...and here for the space of an hour or more the cart stuck fast. CHAPTER II. BREAKING THE ICE. " Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The weary way and long long league to trace ; — Oh there is sweetness in the prairie air, And life that...
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Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life; Or, The California and Oregon Trail ...

Francis Parkman - 1852 - 466 pages
...Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The weary way and long long league to trace , Oh there is sweetness in tlie prairie air, And life that bloated ease can never hope to share." CHILDI HAKOLDI. BOTH Snaw and...
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A cyclopædia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...pompous pretext find, But the mean motive skulks behind. Colton. 448 MOUNTAIN. MOURNERS. MOUNTAIN. THOUGH sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel...sweetness in the mountain air, And life that bloated ease can never hope to share. Hyron. Who first beholds the Alps, — that mighty chain Of mountains, stretching...
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The Works of Lord Byron: In Verse and Prose. Including His Letters, Journals ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...Whereon to gaze the eye with joyaunce fills, Childc Harold wends through many a pleasant place. Though ngled with the offspring of such Protestants as may avail themselves of eaay chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain...
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Norðurfari: Or, Rambles in Iceland

Pliny Miles - 1854 - 298 pages
...mountain of islands." I thought I never should tire of contemplating the varied scene around me, " Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel...sweetness in the mountain air, And life that bloated ease can never hope to share." Time sped too quickly. The day was fast wearing away, and much yet remained...
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Norðurfari: Or, Rambles in Iceland

Pliny Miles - 1854 - 276 pages
...mountain of islands." I thought I never should tire of contemplating the varied scene around me." Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel...sweetness in the mountain air, And life that bloated ease can never hope to share." Time sped too quickly. The day was fast wearing away, and much yet remained...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Embracing His Suppressed Poems, and a Sketch of His ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...Whereon to gaze the eye with joyance fills, [place, Childe Harold wends through many a pleasant Though tless î can never hope to stare . XXXI. More bleak to view the hills at length recede, And, less luxuriant,...
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