That first excites desire, and then supplies ; Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame. Littell's Living Age - Page 1481844Full view - About this book
| 1827 - 500 pages
...resemble not a little in good and bad, it might be said by a like severe observer ; ' Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy. To fill the languid pause with finer joy.' ' In wild excess the vulgar breast takes fire. Till buried in debauch, the bliss expire.' " pp. 90—95.... | |
| 1827 - 496 pages
...resemble not a little in good and bad, it might be said by a like severe observer; ' Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy.' ' In wild excess the vulgar breast takes fire, Till buried in debauch, the bliss expire.' " pp. 90—95.... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - 1827 - 120 pages
...resemble not a little in good and bad, it might be said by a like severe observer ; ' Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, ' To fill the languid pause with finer joy. * * * * ' In wild excess the vulgar breast takes fire, 'Till, buried in debauch, the bliss expire.'*... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pages
...enlightened people, entitled to a very high rank in the scale of European civilization: " Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy." Where particular circumstances, indeed, have given any encouragement, among rude tribes, to the pacific... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pages
...enlightened people, entitled to a very high rank in the scale of European civilization : " Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy." Where particular circumstances, indeed, have given any encouragement, among rude tribes, to the pacific... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...auch lands each pleasing science flies, That first excites desire, and then supplies. Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy : Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flume, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame.... | |
| 1830 - 372 pages
...such lands each pleasing science flies, That first excites desire, and then supplies. Unknown to them when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...lands each pleasing science flies, That first excites desire, and then supplies ; Unknown to them, his back. Shame 10 our ancestors ! many of ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...lands each pleasing science flies, That first excites desire, and then supplies ; Unknown to them, {U K I 434 f H m V =ǡ u t FY ] # fc;!C; K#q` ; Unknown those powers that r.iise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame.... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 320 pages
...passage of The Traveller, of which the following couplet expresses the main object: " Unknown to them when sensual pleasures cloy, "To fill the languid pause with finer joy." "An honest man," says Mr Hume, "has the frequent satisfaction of seeing knaves betrayed by their own... | |
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