 And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill, For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, which panting for...  The life of Samuel Johnson - Strona 84autor: James Boswell - 1820Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - Liczba stron: 654
...transmuted ill ; For Faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain,...These goods He grants who grants the power to gain ; AVith these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.' We confess... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - Liczba stron: 378
...transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat ; These goods for man the laws of heaven ordain. These goods he grants, who grants the pow'r to gain; With these celestial wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - Liczba stron: 306
...fill; For Patience, sovereign as transmuted ill; For Faith, which, panting for a happier seat, Courts Death, kind nature's signal for retreat. These goods...WISDOM calms the mind, And makes the Happiness she cannot find ! — Indeed, we shall at all times do well to cherish a spirit of moderation. In prosperity... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - Liczba stron: 506
...transmuted ill ; For Faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat: These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain...Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she cannot find." LAURENCE STERNE. LA i IK M NCI; STERNE was one of those few authors who have anticipated... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - Liczba stron: 492
...o'er transmuted ill; For Faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat: These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain ; These goods He grants, who grants the power to gam * With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she cannot find." LAURENCE... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - Liczba stron: 366
...sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd...mind, And makes the happiness she does not find." (i) (l) In this poem, a line in which the danger attending on female beauty is mentioned, has very... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - Liczba stron: 604
...skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned; e person to whom the promise was made of striking...the performance of the promise was then claimed. find3." Garrick being now vested with theatrical power by being manager of Drury-lane theatre, he kindly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - Liczba stron: 460
...o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of heaven ordain,...mind, And makes the happiness she does not find." 584. " Irene" " Irene" can boast of a strict adherence to the unities; of harmonious versification;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - Liczba stron: 402
...o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, pantingfor a happier seat, Counts death land nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of heaven ordain,...mind, And makes the happiness she does not find." 584. "Irene." " Irene " can boast of a strict adherence to the unities ; of harmonious versification... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - Liczba stron: 656
...o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat: These goods for man the laws of heaven ordain,...mind, And makes the happiness she does not find." 584. "Irene" " Irene" can boast of a strict adherence to the unities; of harmonious versification ;... | |
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