 | Sir Henry Wotton - 1815 - 236 pages
...Great, fair, rich, wise, [all inf ] Superlatives ; Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Then ever Fortune would have made them mine ; And hold...leisure Beyond the riches of this empty pleasure. * " An angel is a piece of coin, value ten shillings. The -words to ' vie angels are a metonymy, and... | |
 | Sir Henry Wotton - 1845 - 236 pages
...Great, fair, rich, wise, [all inf] Superlatives ; Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Then ever Fortune would have made them mine ; And hold...leisure Beyond the riches of this empty pleasure. • " Ad tnftl it a piece of coin, value ten shillings. The words to ' n> angefe' are a metonymy, and... | |
 | sir Henry Wotton - 1845 - 222 pages
...Great, fair, rich, wise, [all inf ] Superlatives ; Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Then ever Fortune would have made them mine ; And hold...leisure Beyond the riches of this empty pleasure. The words to ' Beggar's Daughter of Bethnal Green (Percy, ii. 165, ed. 1787,) is more to the point.... | |
 | Anne Marsh- Caldwell - 1845 - 666 pages
...was going on, to be sensible of the void within my soul. CHAPTER XII. Weleome pure thoughts, weleome, ye silent groves, These guests, these courts, my soul most dearly loves. SIB II. WOTTOK. Ix July we prepared to return to England — all in great glee. Mr. Higgins, Reginald,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pages
...own : Fame, honour, beauty, state, train, blood, and birth, Are but the fading blossoms of the earth. Welcome, pure thoughts ; welcome, ye silent groves...these courts, my soul most dearly loves : Now the winged people of the sky shall sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring : A prayer-book now... | |
 | 1847 - 334 pages
...we again breathe the fresh air — again feel ourselves in the country — " Welcome pure thought ! welcome ye silent groves ! These guests, these courts, my soul most dearly loves ! Now the winged people of the sky shall sing My cheerful anthems." The smoke, noise, bubble, bubble, toil and... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1847 - 606 pages
...minute of this Italy leisure, Beyond the riches of this empty pleasure. Weleome, pure thoughts, weleome, ye silent groves ; These guests, these courts my soul most dearly loves ; JVow the wing'd people of the sky shall sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome Spring : A Pray'r-book... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pages
...rhymes of every poetaster ; Could I be more than any man that lives, Great, fair, rich, wise, in all superlatives ; Yet I more freely would these gifts...these courts, my soul most dearly loves : Now the winged people of the sky shall sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome Spring ; A prayer-book now... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...Are but the fading blossoms of the earth. Welcome, pure thoughts, welcome, ye silent groves, The«« eky shall siny My cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring : A prayer-book now shall be my looking-glass,... | |
 | William Harrison Safford - 1850 - 248 pages
...attentions. Amidst this peaceful solitude, how fully could he adopt the sentiment of the rural poet:— "Welcome, pure thoughts! welcome, ye silent groves!...These guests, these courts, my soul most dearly loves; How the wing'd people of the sky shall sing, My cheerful anthem to the gladsome spring. Here dwell... | |
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In the loose rhymes of every poetaster ; Could I be more than any man that lives, Great, fair, rich, wise, all in superlatives ; Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Than ever Fortune would have made them mine ; And hold one minute of this holy... 
