 I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream,...  The English language, in its elements and forms - Page 473by William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 268 pages
...noblrst toil. Ne for the Muses other meed decree, They praised are alone, and starve right merrily. I care not, Fortune! what you me deny; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace; You cannot shut the windows of the sty, Through which Aurora shews her brightening face; Yon cannot... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 318 pages
...disregard which poets, above all other beings, entertain for the smiles of the fickle deity : — " I care not, Fortune, what you me deny, You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace : You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her bright'ning face ; You cannot... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Rationalism - 1826 - 462 pages
...quoted a little way back, I chanced to light upon another passsage which I cannot help transcribing : " I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through wliich Aurora shews her brightening face ; You cannot... | |
 | Robert Southey - Christian life - 1829 - 452 pages
...148. hath a free heart, and a good conscience." (p. 3.) Poor fellow he wrote these words in a prison! I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot... | |
 | Ethics - 1829 - 258 pages
...meads As May comes on, and wakes the balmy wind ; Rampant with joy, their joy, all sensual joy exceeds. I care not, Fortune ! what you me deny, You cannot rob me of free nature's grace, Nor shut the windows of the sky. Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the... | |
 | Robert Southey - Christian life - 1829 - 462 pages
...148. hath a free heart, and a good conscience." (p. 3.) Poor fellow he wrote these words in a prison ! I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot... | |
 | Robert Southey - Christian life - 1829 - 456 pages
...148. hath a free heart, and a good conscience." (p. 3.) Poor fellow he wrote these words in a prison ! I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening nice ; Y ou cannot... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1829 - 606 pages
...tenderness with which he quoted this stanza from Thomson, as a faithful transcript of his own feelings. " I care not, Fortune, what you me deny. You cannot rob me of fair Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Poets, English - 1832 - 328 pages
...raptures with it. Mr. Meyrick had his copy. Many stanzas were marked very emphatically ; among the rest the following — " I care not, fortune, what you me deny: You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shews her bright'ning face ; You cannot... | |
 | Hannah Adams - Authors, American - 1832 - 132 pages
...said she, ' as if the world was just created.' No one could exclaim with more feeling and truth, ' I care not, fortune, what you me deny, You cannot rob me of free nature's grace, You cannot bar the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face.' There is but... | |
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