 | Joseph Jones - 1850 - 72 pages
...transmuted ill ; For Faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal for retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain...mind, And makes the happiness she does not find." APPENDIX. 1. Idols. It is not foreign to the subject of the preceding Lecture to notice these false... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 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 lie grants, wlio grants the power to gain With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, Ind makes the... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 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...the mind And makes the happiness she does not find. The other poetical productions of Johnson are short and occasional, and do not require any farther... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 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 docs not find. The other poetical productions of Johnson are short and occasional, and do not require... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier scat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the...ordain, These goods he grants, who grants the power to giili * With these celestial wisdom calms the mind. And makes the happiness she does not find. Prologue... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...These goods for man the Jaws of heav'n ordain ; These goods he grants, who grants the power to gaiuWith these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find." The Prologue for the opening of Drury-lane Theatre is distinguished, among compositions of this class,... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 pages
...transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal for retreat ; These goods for man, the laws of heaven...the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. Some of these lines, if I am not mistaken, are noble in expression, as well as lofty and tender in... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...cultivating the proper frame of mind. In the end it is the proper frame of mind alone that matters: With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. There is an antithesis in this final line of the poem between "makes" and "find," but it is not as... | |
 | John Barton - 1984 - 276 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. To a book which can be read in this way the last verse forms a fitting climax, and instead of being... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 pages
...Wishes: 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. (lines 365-68) A prudent economist — no prodigal enthusiast — can manufacture content. But it remains... | |
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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,... 
