 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.  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 84edited by - 1839Full view - About this book
 | James Walter Wall - 1856 - 336 pages
...Twickenham's bowers ; to -royal Hampton's pile, To Claremont's terraced heights, and Esher's groves. * Enchanting vale! beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia, or Hesperia sung." . Richmond too, has historic memories reaching back to ' olden time. It was a royal residence from... | |
 | Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1857 - 226 pages
...senates Pelham finds repose. Enchanting vale ! beyond whate'er t Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! 0 vale of bliss ! O softly-swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies And joys to see the wonders of his toil. * Highgate and Hampstead 1 In his last sickness. Heavens ! what a goodly prospect... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 610 pages
...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 agriculture... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 pages
...to abstract terms ; and he specifies the following verses : — O valo of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the Power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. — SUMMER. 1423. The book of Kames appeared in 1762. Three years afterwards Goldsmith... | |
 | T P Grinsted - 1859 - 342 pages
...implore The healing god — to royal Hampton's pile, To Claremont's terraced height, and Esher's groves. Enchanting vale ! beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung. 0 vale of bliss ! 0 softly swelling hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see... | |
 | James Thomson - 1861 - 480 pages
...embraced By the soft windings of the silent Mole, 1430 From courts and senates Pelham finds repose. Enchanting vale ! beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! 0 vale of bliss ! 0 softly-swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, Anjjoys jto see... | |
 | James Thomson - 1862 - 272 pages
...solitude, embrac'd By the soft windings of the silent Mole, From courts and senates Pelham finds repose. Enchanting vale! beyond whate'er the muse Has of Achaia...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, and woods,... | |
 | John George Brighton, Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke - 1866 - 590 pages
...beautiful, not a spot of ground uncultivated; a continual succession of gentle swelling hills — ' Whereon the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonder of his toil.' The soil is marly mould ; the ground appears chequered with variety of meadows, fields, and gardens,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1866 - 376 pages
...vale ! beyond whate'er the muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! 0 vale of bliss ! 0 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, and woods,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1868 - 416 pages
...embrac'd 1430 By the soft windings of the silent Mole, From courts and senates Pelham finds repose. Enchanting vale ! beyond whate'er the Muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! 0 vale of bliss ! 0 softly-swelling hills ! On which t/ie Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to... | |
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