 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
 | British poets - 1822 - 320 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. ODES. FRIENDSHIP. FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 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."* ' [In this poem, a line in which the danger attending on female beauty is mentioned, has very generally,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 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." * ' [In this poem, a line in which the danger attending on female beauty is mentioned, has very generally,... | |
 | 1822 - 292 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 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... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 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 j Thpss '-miik HP orants. who srants the nower to cain : PREFATORY MEMOIR TO MACKENZIE.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 426 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. PROLOGUE SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK, At the Opening of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1747. WHEN Learning's... | |
 | Minstrel - 1824 - 246 pagini
...signal of retreat : These goods for man tbe laws of heav'n ordain. These goods he grants, who gran's the pow'r to gain; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not fiuit. THE FALLING LEAF. See the leaves around us falling! Dry and withered to the ground ! Tii us... | |
 | 1829 - 660 pagini
...KNOWLEDGE. " These goods for man the laws of Heaven erdain,— 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." JOHNSON. WE were about to write upon this subject, having had our attention strongly drawn to it by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 454 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."f Garrick being now vested with theatrical power by being manager of Drury-lane theatre, he kindly... | |
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