 But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own ; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3051822Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 938 pages
...fellows blest. But where to find that happiest below — Who can direct, when all pretend to inoio? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot hi* own." &c., &c. So far, then, from the hoard of happiness being small, every country proclaims itself... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...hope at rest, May gather bliss, to see my fellows blest. But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know? The shuddering...Extols the treasures of his stormy seas. And his long nights of revelry and ease: The naked negro, panting at the line. Boasts of his golden sands, and palmy... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 pages
...Iceland is the best land on which the sun shines.* So truly has the poet sung — ' The shudd' ring tenant of the frigid zone, Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own.' Our readers will now be prepared to accompany Dr. Henderson en his long, toilsome, and perilous journey... | |
 | 1818 - 606 pages
...Iceland is the best land on which the sun shines.' So truly has the poet sung — ' The shudd'ring tenant of the frigid zone, Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own.' Our readers will now be prepared to accompany Dr. Henderson on his long, toilsome, and perilous journey... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shudd'ring tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest...Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease ; The naked negro, panting at the line, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pages
...can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shudd'ring tennnt of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims thai happiest spot his own ; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his -long nights of revelry and ease: The naked negro, panting at the line, Boasts of his goWeu sands and pnhny... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...'Iceland is the beat land on which the sun shines.' So truly has the poet sung — ' The shudd'ring tenant of the frigid zone, Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own.' Our readers will now be prepared to accompany Dr. Henderson on his long, toilsome, and perilous journey... | |
 | Maria Hack - 1820 - 226 pages
...But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The.shuddering tenant of the Frigid Zone Boldly proclaims that happiest...Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease.— The naked Negro, panting at the Line, Boasts of his golden sands and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...hope at rest, May gather bliss to see my fellows blessed. But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shuddering...Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease ; The naked negro, panting at the line, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shudd'ring tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest...Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease: The naked Negro, panting at the Line, Boasts of his golden sands, and palmy... | |
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