 Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage and the human breast Torments alike with raging fires; With bright, but oft destructive, gleam, Alike o'er all his lightnings fly ; Thy lambent glories only beam Around the fav'rites of the sky.  La Belle Assemblée - Page 391812Full view - About this book
 | 1819 - 394 pages
...occasion.] SONG XXX. ON FRIENDSHIP. BY MRS. A. WILLIAMS.* FRIENDSHIP, peculiar gift of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. While Love, unknown among the blest, Parent of rage and hot desires, The human,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 pages
...FRIENDSHIP: AN ODE. Printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1743. FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage... | |
 | 1819 - 382 pages
...worth, Else, Jessie ha' na'died. ESSAY ON FRIENDSHIP. Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. DR. JOHNSON. Nihil est nature hominis gratior Amicitia. CICERO. VERY few, who... | |
 | 1819 - 384 pages
...worth, Else, Jessie ha' na' died. ESSAY ON FRIENDSHIP. Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven. The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. DR. JOHNSON. Nihil est naturce hominis gratior AmiciiiX CICERO. VERY few, who... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 320 pages
...makes the happiness she does not find. ODES. FRIENDSHIP. FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. While love, unknown among the bless'd, Parent of thousand wild desires, The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 442 pages
...several variations which are pointed out below. — JB] FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world deny'd. While Love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires," The... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...visits made by George the Second to Hanover. FRIENDSHIP. FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. While love, unknown among the bless'd, Parent of thousand wild desires, The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...But still the child squeal'd on. FRIENDSHIP; AN ODE'. FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world deny'd. While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires u, The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...But still the child squeal'd on. FRIENDSHIP; AN ODE'. FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world deny'd. While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires " , The... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...inconsiderate, or not well informed, when he said, " Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride ; To men and angels only given, To all the Imver world denied " ? Suppose we substitute the word Reason, for the word " Friendship," in the... | |
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