 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 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 1." Garrick being now vested with theatrical power by being manager of Drury-lane theatre, he kindly... | |
 | John Evans - 1831 - 322 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 cannot find ! — Indeed, we shall at all times do well to cherish a spirit of moderation. In prosperity... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...passions, and a will resign'd ; For love which scarce collective man can fill, For patience, sov'reign, o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for...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 wisdom calms... | |
 | 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 - 650 pages
...'d ; For Love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For Patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill j For Faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts...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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...retreat: These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods Ke grants, who grants the power to gain; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. [From Vanity of Human Wishes.] CHARLES XII. ON what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just... | |
 | 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 - 654 pages
...goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants who grants the power to gain ; AVith 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 pages
...passions,' and a will resign'd ; For Love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For Patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For Faith, that, panting for...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 pages
...passions, ami a will resigned ; For Love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For Patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For Faith, that, panting for...signal of retreat: These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain ; These goods He grants, who grants the power to gam * With these celestial Wisdom calms... | |
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For love, which scarce collective man 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. 
