 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
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - Liczba stron: 570
...which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's...the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. PART SECOND. MARTIAL AND POPULAR. I. SCIPrO TO HIS ARMY. —Abridgment from Lioy. Before the battle... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - Liczba stron: 568
...which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's...the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. PART SECOND. MARTIAL AND POPULAR. 1. SCIPIO TO BOS ABMY. — Abridgment from Livy. Before the battle... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - Liczba stron: 570
...which scaree colleetive man can fill ; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's...grants the power to gain. With these, celestial Wisdom ealms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. PART SECOND. MARTIAL AND POPULAR. 1. SCIPIO... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - Liczba stron: 458
...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 does nut find. THE VANITY OF WEALTH. No more, thus brooding o'er yon heap, With Avarice painful vigils keep... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - Liczba stron: 348
...bappier seat Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat; These goods for man, the laws of Heav'n ordain, These goods he grants, who grants the power...the mind And makes the happiness she does not find. Give an accurate paraphrase of this passage. AKENSIDE. 7. Then with Promethean art . Into its proper... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - Liczba stron: 336
...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. Vaintij of Human Wishes. Prosperity. Prosperity, as is truly asserted by Seneca, very much obstructs... | |
 | 1854 - Liczba stron: 576
...which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's...mind, A.nd makes the happiness she does not find. PART SECOND. MARTIAL AND POPULAR. 1. SCIPIO TO HIS ARMY. — Abridgment from Livy. Refore the battle... | |
 | D. H. Rawlinson - 1968 - Liczba stron: 254
...Retreat. These Goods for Man the Laws of Heav'n ordain, 17 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. 20 Compare these extracts. They are both free renderings of a passage from a Latin poem and can be... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - Liczba stron: 818
...which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's...the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. Some of these lines, if I am not mistaken, are noble in expression, as well as lofty and tender in... | |
 | John Barton - 1984 - Liczba stron: 276
...retreat. These goods for man the laws of heav'n 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. To a book which can be read in this way the last verse forms a fitting climax, and instead of being... | |
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