 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...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. REJUVENESCENCE. [REV. HENRY STEERING] THERE'S a gladness in the voice of youth, and its song 'mid summer... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...patience, sovereign o'er 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, These goods Ke grants, who grants the power to gain; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 pages
...Patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For Faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat: These goods for man the...Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she cannot find." LAURENCE STERNE. LA i IK M NCI; STERNE was one of those few authors who have anticipated... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 pages
...transmuted ill; For Faith, which, panting for a happier seat, Courts Death, kind nature's signal for retreat. These goods for MAN the laws of Heaven ordain,...WISDOM calms the mind, And makes the Happiness she cannot find ! — Indeed, we shall at all times do well to cherish a spirit of moderation. In prosperity... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 pages
...Patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For Faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat: These goods for man the...ordain ; These goods He grants, who grants the power to gam * With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she cannot find." LAURENCE... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...transmuted ill; For faith, which panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal for graphical Dictionary," and " Biographia Dramatica;"...is, not that an edition wa§ published with Rolfs find3." Garrick being now vested with theatrical power by being manager of Drury-lane theatre, he kindly... | |
 | Juvenal - 1837 - 306 pages
...retreat; These goods for man the laws of Heav'n ordain, 365 These goods he grants, who grants the pow'r to With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. gain; END OF JUVENAL. PERSIU S. TKANSLATID BY THE RT. HON. SIR W. DRUMMOND, I FELLOW 07 THE ROYAL IOC1ITII5... | |
 | 1840 - 368 pages
...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. JOHN SCOTT. 1730-1783. ODE ON HEARING THE DRUM. I HATE that drum's discordant sound, Parading round,... | |
 | Selected letters - 1842 - 318 pages
...which scarce collective man can fill ; For faith, which, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain' d, These goods he grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial wisdom calms the mind,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind ts' rise and fall ; We know that these were felt by...R. Chambers"% Chambers Robert" Robert Chambers( Prologue tpoten by Sir (Harriet, at the opening of Ute Theatre in Drury Lane, in 1747. U' 1 1 гм... | |
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For love, 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 signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants,... 
