...groves, western blizzards or northern snows, I have followed the brilliant ignis fatuus, "that, like the circle bounding earth and skies, allures from far, yet as I follow flies," and no man, however much married, is a more competent witness to the power and prowess of woman. I...

...Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from...realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. It is characteristic both of Goldsmith, and of the mosaic of memories which the poetic theories of...

...CHAPTER VI THOMAS CORY AT (1612—1617) That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, as I follow, flies; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. — GOLDSMITH Of all the English travellers of the seventeenth century who went to India and recorded...

...Impell'd with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view : That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies; My fortunes lead to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. CONTENTS. CHAP. I....

...Impell'd with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good that mocks me with the view, That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies. The Traveller sits him down (as he sometimes inelegantly expresses it) on an eminence of the Alps,...

...contemplating the mysterious bond between space and spirit, takes up a similar position in The Traveller: "Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, / I sit me down a pensive hour to spend." 48 However, having created this spatial immediacy, Keble returns to his epigraph and takes up its pattern...

...Impell'd with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from...realms alone And find no spot of all the world my own.9 The alienation experienced in this exile is not merely a point of view from which Goldsmith's...

...Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies. (24-25) Besides antithesis, inversion, and the anastrophe of the first couplet, Goldsmith uses pleonasm...

...Impelled, with step unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good that mocks me with the view; That like the circle bounding earth and skies Allures from far,...follow, flies: My fortune leads to traverse realms unknown, And find no spot of all the world my own." I spoke in a former lecture of that high courage...