 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 goods for man the laws of heaven ordain, These goods he grants, who grants the pow'r to gain ; With these celestial...  Literary and Miscellaneous Memoirs - Page 139by Joseph Cradock - 1826Full view - About this book
 | 1789 - 228 pages
...skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign 'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For...mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.* EPISTLE III. LONDON. By the Same, Quis ineptae Tarn patiens ur.iis, tarn ferreus ut teneat se f. Juv.... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 428 pages
...For love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill ;^ a "6 For faith, that panting for a happier seat, Counts...the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. EPISTLE III. LONDON. By the Same. Quis inepue Tam patiens urbis, tam ferrous ut teneat se * Juv. TnouGHgriefand... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 442 pages
...retreat : These goods for man the laws of heaven ordain, These goods he grants, who grants the- p ow'r to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. EPISTLE III. LONDON. By the Same, quj, ineptae Tam patiens urbis, tun ferreus ut teneat se '' Juv.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...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.' Monarchy and bishops, he was plundered by the parliament forces, and twice carried away prisoner from... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...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." Garrick being now vested with theatrical power by being manager of Drury-lane theatre, he kindly and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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.' Monarchy and bishops, he was plundered by the parliament forces, and twice carried away prisoner from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...happier seat, Counts Death kind Nature-s signal for retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heav-n ordain, , ' These goods he grants who grants the pow-r...wisdom calms the mind, ' And makes the happiness she docs not find. Vanity of Human Wiihe*. PROSPERITY. Prosperity, as is truly asserted by Seneca, very... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...skies aspires, four forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For...the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. PROLOGUE • SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK, AT THE OPENING OF THE THE ATRE-ROTALj DRTJRY-LANE, 1747. WHEN learning's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 pages
...happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal oT retreat: These goods for man the laws of Heav'n ordain, These goods he grants, who grants the pow'r...the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. • Yer. 34«— &PROLOGUE, tl'OKFX ST MR GAKRICK, ^t the Opening of the Theatre Royal, DRUB v LANE,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of heav'n ordain,' These goods he grants, who grants the pow'r...mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. The month succeeding the publication of " The Vanity of Human Wishes," witnessed the crisis of our poet's... | |
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