 | Elizabeth Singer Rowe - 1808 - 326 pages
...mind was prepared for conviction. I began to rea^ son with Cato, C ci If there's a pow'r above, • He must delight in virtue ; ' And that which he delights in must be happy.' I found myself now interested in the tiuths of Christianity. The firm belief of a life everlasting... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1810 - 504 pages
...all human virtue eternally depend. If there's a power aboye us, (And that there is all nature crics aloud Thro' all her works) he must delight in virtue, And that which he delights in, must be happy. But should this divine reasoning of the philosopher be at last inconclusive; could we once entertain... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works, he must delight in virtue, And that which be delights in must be happy. Nor is ease more contrary...to wit than to sublimity ; the celebrated stanza of Cowley, on a lady elaborately dressed, loses nothing of its freedom by the spirit of the sentiment... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...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 must delight in virtue; and that, which he delights in, must be happy. But when, or where ? — this world was made for Caesar : I 'm weary of conjectures, this must end... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...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 must delight in virtue; and that, which he delights in, must be happy. But when, or where ? — this world was made for Caesar : I 'ra weary of conjectures, this must end... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 272 pages
...Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, ' (And that there is all Nature cries aloud ' Though all her works) he must delight in virtue ; ' And that which he delights in must be happy. « But when ! or where ? — This world was made for Cssar. 'I'm weary of conjectures — This must... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 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 must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. A PARAPHRASE ON PART OF THE NINETEENTH PSALM. ADDISON. IHE spacious firmament on high, With all the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...to man. r— — — 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...to wit than to sublimity : the celebrated stanza of Cowley, on a lady elaborately dressed, loses nothing of its freedom by the spirit of the sentiment... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...to man. —————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...contrary to wit than to sublimity : the celebrated itanza of Cowley, on a lady elaborately dressed, loses nothing of its freedom by the spirit of the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 638 pages
...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 must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when! or where! — This world was made for Caesar. I'm weary of conjectures— —This must end... | |
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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. 
