 | Sophia Matilda Holworthy - 1876 - 200 pages
...in pleasure is dead while she liveth."— i TIM. v. 6. " Hast thou no friend to set thy mind afloat, Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied ; Speech, thought's canal, — speech, thought's... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...delight ; Twins lied by Nature ; if they part, they die. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach 1 art knows the wide world's unopen'd to the Sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had beon denied Speech, thought's canal ! speech,... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...thy own suggesting mind, And other;, dictated by heavenly power, Shall rise spontaneous. — Pope. set a gloss on faint deeds,— hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry e'er 'tis shown wan air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.— Young. LullM in the countless chambers of the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...imagined wings our swift scene flies, In motion with no less celerity Than that of thought. SHAKSPEARE. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach? Good...Thoughts, shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. YOUNG. Thought in the mind may come forth gold or dross ; When coin'd in words,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Wyatt - 1879 - 624 pages
...flow'rs, So men from friendship, wisdom and delight ; Twins tied by Nature, if they part, they die. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach \ Good...Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied ; Speech, thought's canal !... | |
 | Glasgow sabbath school union - 1879 - 652 pages
...— ' As bees mix'd nectar draw from fragrant flowers, So men from friendship, wisdom and delight. Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.' " " My history, indeed," said Tam, laughing, " all my schooling was got at a night class for twelve... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1880 - 416 pages
...there are many of them who rejoice in Trim along with me."' Conversation ventila-tes tlioug7it. — Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air. And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun — Thought, too, delivered is the more possessed ; Teaching we learn, and giving we retain The births... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...Progress of Poesy, n. 3. Guard well thy thought ; — Our thoughts are heard in heaven. Young, NT Ii. 95. Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. Young, NT n.466. THOUGHTS. THOTOHTFULNESS— coniinued. "Who can mistake great thoughts ! They seize... | |
 | Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 pages
...greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. — Steele. Conversation, utility of. Good sense will stagnate ; thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied. Speech, thoughtscarnal! Speech, thought's criterion... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 pages
...its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn. PERCITAL. Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. YOUNG. TIME. Old Time, in whose bank we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for... | |
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Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ; Good Sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun. 
