Nature denied him much, But gave him at his birth what most he values; A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting, For poetry, the language of the gods, For all things here, or grand or beautiful, A setting sun, a lake among the mountains, The light... Recollections - Page xviby Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 253 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1856 - 634 pages
...independently of, his writings : — ' Nature denied him much, But gave him at his birth what most he values ; A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting,...ingenuous countenance, And what transcends them all, a noble action. Nature denied him much, but gave him more ; And ever, ever grateful should he be, Though... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...suffering or unfriended talent Nature denied him much. But gave him at his birth what most he values : Л noble action. IM». [From the ' PUaturet of ¡fcmory.'] Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...suffering or unfriended talent. Nature denied him much, But gave him at his birth what most he values : levated eye, Behold him seated on a mount serene,...passion's storm ; All the black cares and tumults of Л setting eun, a lake among the mountains, The light of an ingenuous countenance, And, what transcends... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 366 pages
...wing — Triumphs and masques. Nature denied him much, But gave him at his birth what most he values ; A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting,...ingenuous countenance, And what transcends them all, a noble action. Nature denied him much, but gave him more ; And ever, ever grateful should he be, Though... | |
| Francis Schroeder - History - 1846 - 660 pages
...refreshingly he consoles himself that he has yet a love " For all things grand or beautiful : A moonlit sea ; a lake among the mountains ; The light of an ingenuous countenance, And what transcends them all, a noble action !" So much for fair wind. Evening, SINCE I wrote the foregoing we have had quite a little... | |
| Languages, Modern - 1861 - 494 pages
...much, But gave him at his hirth what inost he values; A passionate love for music, sculpture, paintiog, For poetry, the language of the gods, For all things here, or grand or beautiful, A setting MIM. a lake among the mountains, The light of an ingenuous countenance, And what transeends them all,... | |
| Languages, Modern - 1861 - 488 pages
...birth what most he values; A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting, For poetry, the lariguage of the gods, For all things here, or grand or beautiful,...light of an ingenuous countenance, And what transcends tbem all, a noble actiou. Nature denied him muth, but gave him more; And ever, ever grateful should... | |
| Banks and banking - 1850 - 916 pages
...means of diffusing around him ! Nature denied him much, Hut gave him at his birth what most he values : A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting....setting sun, a lake among the mountains, The light of au ingenuous countenance, And, \vliat transcends them all, a noble action Italy. THE PUBLIC REVENUE... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...fering or unfriended talent Nature denied him much. But gave him at his birth what most he raines: t I lay, Beside the ruined tower. The moonshine, stealing o'er the scene, god«. For all things here, or grand or beautiful, A setting sun, a lake among the mountains, The light... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 522 pages
...wing — Triumphs and masques. Nature denied him much, But gave him at his birth what most he values; A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting,...ingenuous countenance, And what transcends them all, a noble action. Nature denied him much, but gave him more ; And ever, ever grateful should he be, Though... | |
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