 Nature denied him much, But gave him at his birth what most he values; A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting, For poetry, the language of the gods, For all things here, or grand or beautiful, A setting sun, a lake among the mountains, The light...  Recollections - Page xviby Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 229 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 pages
...thus gracefully alluded to : Nature denied him much, But gave him at hi- birth what nvjst be values : A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting, For poetry, the language of the gods, For all thiugi here, or grand or beautiful, A selling sun, a lake among the mountains, The light of an ingenious... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 pages
...thus gracefully alluded to: Nature denied him mnch, Bnt gave him at. his birth what most he valnes: A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting. For poetry, the language of the cods, For all things here, or grand or beautiful, A H. it in:1. HID. u Like among the mountains, The... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...Italy," refers to himself: 11 Nature denied him much. Bat gave him at his birth what most he values : eives a brand Rogers died in his ninety -third year, bis life having ranged over four successive generations in the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...he vaines : A passionate love for music, sculpture, paiutiug, For poetry, the laugnage of the Rude, For all things here, or grand or beautiful, A setting sun, a lake among the mountains, The light of an iugennous countenance, And, what transcenda them all, a uoble action." Rogers died in his ninety -third... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - 1887 - 492 pages
...denied him much But gave him at bis birth what most he values, A passionate love for music, sculture, painting, For poetry, the language of the Gods, For...countenance, And what transcends them all, a noble action. 1 In the Common Place Book is the earliest form of these lines, and they are entitled ' Of myself —a... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - 1887 - 488 pages
...denied him much But gave him at Iris birth what most he values, A passionate love for music, sculture, painting, For poetry, the language of the Gods, For...grand or beautiful : A setting sun, a lake among the mounta1ns, The light of an ingenuous countenance, And what transcends them all, a noble action. 1 In... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1887 - 452 pages
...says, describing himself, — " Nature denied him much ; But gave him at his birth what most he value?, A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting,...gods, For all things here or grand or beautiful, A getting ntn, a lake among the mountains," &c. — ED. J The Right Honourable TG— ED. * TABLE-TALK... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 570 pages
...end of his ' Italy ' : — ' Nature denied him much, But gave him at his birth what most he valued ; A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting,...all things here, or grand, or beautiful ; A setting snn — a lake among the mountains, The light of an ingenuous countenance ; And, what transcends them... | |
 | Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 518 pages
...poet to whom Nature denied the divine consecration, but gave him, as he tells us in " Italy,"— " A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting,...countenance, And, what transcends them all, a noble action." Charles Lamb, whose poetical pieces barely indicate those powers which were displayed in his fine prose... | |
 | Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 520 pages
...Nature denied the divine consecration, but gave him, as he tells us in "Italy,"— " A passionate IOTO for music, sculpture, painting, For poetry, the language...countenance, And, what transcends them all, a noble action." Charles Lamb, whose poetical pieces barely indicate those powers which were displayed in his fine prose... | |
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