 | Isaac Watts - 1802 - 306 pages
...taste, Nor hearkens to despair, but tries the bowl again. The rills of pleasure never run sincere ,• (Earth has no unpolluted spring) From the curs'd soil...So roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting. ' • • II. In vain we seek a heaven below the sky; The world has false but flatt'ring charms; Its... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1807 - 410 pages
...despair, but tries the bowl again. The rills of pleasure never run sincere ; (Earth has no uupolluted spring) From the curs'd soil some dangerous taint...So roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting. In vain we seek a Heaven below the sky ; The world has false, but flattering charms : Its distant joys... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 pages
...Nor hearkens to despair, but tries the bowl again. The rills of pleasure never run sincere, (Faith has no unpolluted spring) From the curs'd soil some...So roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting. In vain ce seek a Heaven below the sky ; The world has false, but flattering, charms; Its distant joys... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 pages
...the taste, Xm hearkens to despair, hut tries the howl again. The rills of pleasure never run sincere, (Earth has no unpolluted spring) From the curs'd soil some dangerous taint they hear; So roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting. In vain we seek a Heaven helow the sky; The... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1813 - 574 pages
...pleasure never run sincere ; (F.arth has no unpolluted spring) From the curs'd soil some dang Vouä taint they bear ; So roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting. Í In vain we seek a heaven below the sky; The world has false, but flatt'ring charms; Its distant... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 pages
...taste ; Nor hearkens to despair, but tries the bowl again. The rills of pleasure never run sincere; (Earth has no unpolluted spring) From the curs'd soil...So roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting. In vain we seek a Heaven below the sky ; The world has false, but flattering charms : Its distant joys... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pages
...taste, Nor hearkens to despair, but tries the bowl again. The rills of pleasure never run sincere : Earth has no unpolluted spring, From the curs'd soil...So roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting. Jn vain we seek a heaven below the sky ; The world has false but flattering charms : Its distant joys... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...bowl again. The rills of pleasure never run sincere : Earth has no unpolluted spring, From the cursed soil some dangerous taint they bear ; So roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting. In vain we seek a heaven below the sky ; The world has false but flattering charms : Its distant joys... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1838 - 222 pages
...Lady Ellen had an indistinct membrance that he had been a guest that same nigh her father's house ! CHAPTER VI. Earth has no unpolluted spring, From the curs'd soil some dangerous taint they bear j So roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting. Dr. Wall, ON the same night that Lady Ellen Revis... | |
 | James Orange - 1840 - 542 pages
...things. — " The rills of pleasure never run sincere, ( Earth^has no unpolluted spring,) FronVthe curs'd soil some dangerous taint they bear, So roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting. In vain we seek a heaven below the skies, The world has false, but flattering claims ; Its distant... | |
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Pleasure must be dash'd with pain: And yet , with heedless haste, The thirsty boy repeats the taste, Nor hearkens to despair, but tries the bowl again. The rills of pleasure never run sincere: Earth has no unpolluted spring, From the curs'd soil some... 
