 Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.  The Idler - Page 306by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | Select lessons - 1785 - 156 pages
...unbounded Profpect lies before me ; Bat Shadows, Clouds, and Darknefs reft upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, (And that there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her Works) he muft delight in Virtue ; And that which he delights in muft be happy. The... | |
 | 1783 - 542 pages
...the ways of heaven are dark and intricate, * Our underftandings leek for them in vain.' Only this, ' If there's a power above us, ' And that there is all nature cries aloud ' Through all her works, he muft delight in virtue, ' And that which he delights in muft be happy *.'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...will admit greatnefs. Many lines in Cato's foliloquy are at once eafy and fublime : 'Tis the divinity that ftirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itfelf that points...virtue, And that which he delights in muft be happy. Nor I Nor is eafe more contrary to wit than to fublimity ; the celebrated flanza of Cowley, on a lady elaborately... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 pages
...Here will I hold. If there's a Pow'r above us, (•And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works) He muft delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in tnuft be happy. But, when ? or where ? This world— was made for Cse&r, I'm weary of conjectures-... | |
 | 1789 - 428 pages
...unbounded profpect lies before me; *' But (hadows, clouds, and darknefs, reft upon it. " Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, " (And that there is all Nature cries aloud " Through all her works) he muft delight in virtue; '* And that which he delights in muft be happy.... | |
 | William Belsham - 1789 - 482 pages
...and thefe obvious defigns of his Providence to be counteracted with impunity? " If there is a God, he " muft delight in virtue, and that which he delights " in muft be happy;" and as happinefs is not an invariable concomitant of virtue, nor mifery of vice, in this life, it is... | |
 | Soame Jenyns - 1790 - 316 pages
...afcertain the moral characteriftic of God, and upon that only muft all human virtue eternally depend. If there's a power above us, (And that there is all...virtue. And that which he delights in, muft be happy. But fhould this divine reafoning of the philofopher be at laft inconcluflve ; could we once entertain... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 364 pages
...it. Here will I hold. If there 'sa power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he muft delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in muft be happy. But when ! or where ! — This world was made for Caefar. I 'm weary of conjeftures — This muft end... | |
 | James Lackington - 1791 - 366 pages
...concern ; for . If there's a power above H'S, (And tr.at there is, all nature cries aloud Thro' all he works.) he muft delight in Virtue ; And that which he delights in muft be happy. ADDIS OK'S Cato. And no matter " when or where." After relating fuch ridiculons fluff as the above,... | |
 | 1795 - 846 pages
...it. Here will I held. If there's a power above us, (Asi that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he muft delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in muft be happy. Cat when I or where ! — This world was made for Cxfar. I'm weary of conjecture»— This muft end... | |
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