 | 1822 - 276 pagini
...instantly reform ; then, the trembling, fluttering, sighing of the breast, will be exchanged, for " What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, " The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy." But hark ! do I hear the murmurings of unbelief, threatening despair ? — ' Ah me ! fain would I walk... | |
 | Ronald M'Chronicle (pseud.) - 1822 - 746 pagini
...more easy now, and I have three parts of a mind to live, and be an honest man yet." CHAPCHAPTER X. What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy. POPK. Fair lovers ! you are fortunately met ; Of this discourse we will hear more anon. Egeus, I will... | |
 | Allen Fisk - 1822 - 192 pagini
...Wisdom's part, This is that incense of the hrart, Whose fragrance smells to Heav'n. What nothing eartbly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize. Who lives to nature, rarely cao be poor ; Who lives to fancy, never can be rich. When young, life's... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 pagini
...learn'd to stray, Along the cool s«quester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. What nothing earthly gives, or ca•n destroy, The...sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to thy door', Whose days are... | |
 | Henry Parmele - 1823 - 122 pagini
...; it encourages good dispositions : whence arises among gotd masons, that comely order — " Which nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, " The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt j»y,':> CHARGE AT ADVANCING. "BROTHEK, " I congratulate you on having been thought worthy of being... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 94 pagini
...learu'd to stray ; Along the cool sequesterM vale of life, They kept the noisaless tsuor of their -way. What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart ielt joy, Is, virtue's prize. Pity the sorrows o£a poor old man, "Whose trenfbling limbs hVve... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 116 pagini
...his heels. Far from the madding croud's ignoble strife. Their sober withes never learn'd to stray;' What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart felt joy, Is virtue's prize. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man. Whose trembling limbs have borne... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pagini
...to give; Immense the pow'r, immense were the demand; Say, at what part of nature will they stand? 22 What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's...sun-shine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: a better would you fix? Then give humility a coach and six, Justice a conqu'ror's sword, or truth a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pagini
...that virtue for which they are demanded as a reward . He concludes, therefore, on the whole, that " What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's...sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize " And that to aim at other, which not only is of no use to us here, but, what is more, will be of none... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagini
...to give ; Immense the power, immense were the demand; Say, at what part of nature will they stand? ry things, More trifling still than they. " And what...friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; A sh a better would you fix? Then give Humility a coach and six, Justice a conqueror's sword, or Truth a... | |
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix? 
