 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...repose. Inchanting vale ! beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! O vale of bliss ! O softly - swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies , And joys to see the wonders of his toil. Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales... | |
 | English literature - 1804 - 188 pages
...assent to those, who censure Thomson as licentious for using the following figure ; O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, . And joys to see the wonders of his toil. We cannot conceive a more beautiful image than that of the Genius of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 492 pages
...assent to those, who censure Thompson as licentious for using the following figure: O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. We cannot conceive a more beautiful image than that of the Genius of... | |
 | B. Lambert - London (England) - 1806 - 624 pages
...groves. Enchanting vale ! beyond wbate'er the musa . Has of Achaia, or Hesncria sung ! 0 vale of bibs ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonder of his toil. 1 leav'ns 1 what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills and dales,... | |
 | John Feltham - London (England) - 1806 - 496 pages
...Enchautingvale ! beyond wliate'er the Muse Has of Achaia, or llesperia sung '. . O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the power of Cultivation lies, And. joys to see the wonder of his toil. Hoarn's ! what a goodly prospect spread around, O; hills aucj dales,... | |
 | 1807 - 216 pages
...imagination might perhaps fancy the genius of commerce from this station, smiling upon the opposite Softly swelling hills, On which the power of Cultivation lies. And joys to sec the wonders of his toil. Passing over the entrance into the King's-dock, from the bason, by... | |
 | Anne MacVicar Grant - Highlands (Scotland) - 1809 - 288 pages
...plantations, (for the gentry here are great improvers,) whence we overlook extensive fertile plains, and " Softly swelling hills, " On which the power of cultivation lies, " And joys to see the wonders of his hand." Yet, over and above the partiality which we are apt to contract for... | |
 | William Bernard Cooke - England - 1811 - 324 pages
...repose. Enchanting vale! beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung! O vale of bliss! O, softly swelling hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. — Heav'ns, what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills and dales,... | |
 | Samuel Owen - Thames River (England) - 1811 - 416 pages
...repose. Enchanting vale ! beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung! O vale of bliss! O, softly swelling hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. — Heav'ns, what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills and dales,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 492 pages
...assent to those, who censure Thomson as licentious for using the following figure : O vale of bliss! O softly swelling hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. We cannot conceive a more beautiful image than that of the Genius of... | |
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O vale of bliss! O softly swelling hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. 
