 | William Dowling - 1857 - 412 pagini
...ensuing spring ; Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers who their infants overlay ; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings,...No unexpected inundations spoil The mower's hopes, or mock the ploughman's toil : But god-like his unwearied bounty flows ; First loves to do, then loves... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 pagini
...ensuing spring, And then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay ; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings,...hopes, nor mock the ploughman's toil, But Godlike his unwearied bounty flows ; First loves to do, then loves the good he does. Nor are his blessings to his... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1860 - 296 pagini
...them at all. But proceed. MILVERTON. I forget the next few lines; but afterwards it goes on so, — " No unexpected inundations spoil The mower's hopes,...flows ; First loves to do, then loves the good he does. Nor are his blessings to his banks confin'd, But free and common as the sea or wind ; * Aphorisms... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pagini
...spring ; Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay ; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings,...hopes, nor mock the ploughman's toil ; But godlike his unwearied bounty flows ; First loves to do, then loves the good he does. Nor are his blessings to his... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pagini
...spring ; Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants over-lay, Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings,...hopes, nor mock the ploughman's toil ; But godlike his unwearied bounty flows ; First loves to do, then loves the good he does ; Nor are his blessings to... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pagini
...ensuing spring ; Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers who their infants overlay ; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings,...wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations spoil The mower'shopes,ormock the ploughman's toil; But godlike his unwearied bounty flows ; First loves to do,... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pagini
...ensuing spring, And then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay ; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings,...hopes, nor mock the ploughman's toil, But Godlike his unwearied bounty flows ; First loves to do, then loves the good he does. Nor are his blessings to his... | |
 | 1863 - 362 pagini
...ensuing spring, And then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay ; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings,...hopes, nor mock the ploughman's toil, But Godlike his unwearied bounty flows ; First loves to do, then loves the good he does. Nor are his blessings to his... | |
 | 1863 - 478 pagini
...ensuing spring, And then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay ; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings,...hopes, nor mock the ploughman's toil, But Godlike his unwearied bounty flows ; First loves to do, then loves the good he does. Nor are his blessings to his... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 722 pagini
...to lus embraces runs ; Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings....the wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations spoil ces âmes un fonds indestructible d'instincts moraux et de mélancolie grandiose, et c'en est la plus... | |
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O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing And hatches plenty for th' ensuing spring. Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay. Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings, resumes the wealth... 
