 | Thomas Arnold - 1882 - 568 pagini
...Like mothers which their infants overlay, Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse Icings, resumes the wealth he gave ; No unexpected inundations...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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pagini
...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 hi gave. No unexpected inundations spoil The mower's hopes, nor mock the ploughman's ••.-. But... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 pagini
...spreads his spacious wing And hatches plenty for the ensuing L ike mothers who 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 - 1885 - 582 pagini
...unexpected inundations spoil The mower's hopes, nor mock the ploughman's toll ; * Aphorisms on Man. No. 450. But godlike his unweary'd bounty 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 ; When he,... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pagini
...described. The following is the most frequently quoted passage : — THE THAMES. No unexpected inundations1 spoil The mower's hopes, nor mock the ploughman's toil, But godlike his unwearied bounty2 flows ; First loves to do, then loves the good he does. Nor are his blessings to... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1887 - 390 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1887 - 446 pagini
...principes religieux et monarchiques. Charles II recevait de Louis XIV une pension, une maîtresse, des But godlike his unweary'd bounty flows ; First loves to do, then loves thé good he does. 0 , could I flow like thee , and make thy stream My gréât example, as it is my... | |
 | 1891 - 780 pagini
...not often to complain of capricious conduct on his pait. Witness for him the poets of other days : No unexpected inundations spoil The mower's hopes, nor mock the ploughman's toil, ALL THE YEAK BOUND. [Conducted I, As for winter floods, and freshets in ipring, they are to bo reckoned... | |
 | 1893 - 386 pagini
...ensuing spring, And then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers who 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - 322 pagini
...a stay Like mothers who their infants overlay ; Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like proruse kings, resumes the wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations...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... | |
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