| John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...diamonds in the flaming mine? Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows? where grows it not? if...vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Walker says, that " here the phrase, where grows assumes the rising inflection, and ought to... | |
| Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 620 pages
...diamonds in the flaming mine Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvest of the field ? Where grows, — where grows it not...— If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, oot the soil. and fleeting, the supreme and ultimate good of man. These answers, beside, proceed on... | |
| English poetry - 1883 - 338 pages
...the flaming mine ? 10 Twined with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows ?—where grows it not...vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, 15 'T is nowhere to be found, or everywhere; 'T is never... | |
| James Platt - 1883 - 538 pages
...does not practise what they teach, resembles a man who digs, but does not sow."—Arabian Maxima. " If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil." POPE. "All men have in themselves the feelings of mercy and pity, of shame and hatred of vice.... | |
| Charles Witcomb - 1884 - 180 pages
...diamonds in the naming mine? Twined with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reaped in iron harvests of the field? Where grows? where grows it not? If...vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil : Fixed to no spot is happiness sincere, Tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere : 'Tis never to... | |
| William Edward Armytage Axon - 1884 - 360 pages
...Prophet will remain as curious and interesting documents in the history of the county. CHESHIRE MARLING. Where grows ? where grows it not ? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. POPE. Essay on Man. HPHE use of the peculiar natural manure called marl A appears to have been... | |
| 1885 - 686 pages
...diamonds in the flaming mine? Twined with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reaped in iron harvests of the field? Where grows ?• — where grows it...vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil: Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, Tis nowhere to be found, or ev'rywhere; 'Tis never to... | |
| Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 pages
...diamonds in the flaming mine? Twined with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield. Or reaped in iron harvests of the field? Where grows? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to Mame the culture, not the soil: Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, Tis nowhere to be found, or... | |
| Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...diamonds in the naming mine ? Twined with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield. Or reaped in iron harvests he hea blftme the culture, not the soil : Fixed to no spot is happiness sincere, "Tie nowhere to be found,... | |
| James Platt - 1890 - 220 pages
...brain, like the soil, is fertile or barren according to the way it is cultivated, and therefore — " If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil." — Pope. There can be no progress until this belief is more general, then we may hope for man... | |
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