 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, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial...  The works of Samuel Johnson - Pagina 219de Samuel Johnson - 1823Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pagini
...can fill ; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat ; These...the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. * Vcr. 346— S66. PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK, AT THE OPENING OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY - LANE,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pagini
...can fill; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat : These...gain; With these celestial wisdom calms the mind, 'Arfd makes the' happiness she does not find. The month succeeding the publication of" The Vanity of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 644 pagini
...retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.' We confess ourselves enthusiastic about Dr. Johnson ; but, perhaps, after all, it may be worth while... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pagini
...can fill ; ?or patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill ; ?or faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat : These...the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. " Ver, 289—345. VOL, XVI. PROLOGUE. SPUKBM Br MB. GARRICK, AT THE OPENING OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, DBURY... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 416 pagini
...all the strength, and colour of our life." " These gifts to man the laws of God ordain, These gifts he grants who grants the pow'r to gain ; With these...wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she docs not find." " What gave great Villiers to th' assassin's knife ? What fix'd disease on Hm ley's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 206 pagini
...retreat : These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods HEgrants,who grants the power to gain; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. ODES. FRIENDSHIP. FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pagini
...can fill ; For 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 laws of Heav'n ordain, The goods He grants, who grants the pow'r to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pagini
...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, who grants the power to gain; With these celestial Wisdom calms... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pagini
...admirable conclusion of the satire is improved into an impressive lesson of piety and resignation. These goods for man the laws of heav'n ordain ; . These goods he grants, who grants the power to gain. With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.''... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pagini
...can fill; For patiente, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat: These...the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. JOHNSON. HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF LIFE. IF you would live, I do not merely say as long, but as much,... | |
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