 Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss ? How tasteless then whatever can be given? Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise, of health.  Western Clearings - Page 172by Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1845 - 237 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...sloth, no pride, no joy he hath: " O leaden-hearted men, to be in love with death! LV. " Ah! what avail the largest gifts of heaven, " When drooping health...and spirits go amiss? " How tasteless then whatever can be given! " Health is the vital principle of bliss, " And exercise of health. In proof of this,... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...no pride, no joy he hath : " O leaden-hearted men, to be in love with death i LV. " Ah ! what avail the largest gifts of heaven, " When drooping health...and spirits go amiss? " How tasteless then whatever can be given! " Health is the vital principle of bliss, " And exercise of health. In proof of this,... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 236 pages
...no pride, no joy he hath ; " O leaden-hearted men, to be in love with death I LV. " Ah ! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, " When drooping health and spirits go amiss ? " How tasteles then, whatever can be given ? " Health is the vital principle of bliss, ** And exercise of... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...sloth, no pride, no joy he hath : " O leaden-hearted men, to be in love with death ! " Ah ! what avail the largest gifts of heaven, " When drooping health...and spirits go amiss ? " How tasteless then whatever can be given ? " Health is the vital principle of bliss, i2 " And exercise of health. In proof of this,... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...sloth, no pride, no joy he hath : O leaden-hearted men, to be in love with death ! LV. Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss ? How tasteless then whatever can be given ? Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise of health. In proof of this, Behold... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...sloth, no pride, no joy he hath : O leaden-hearted men, to be in love with death ! "^Ah ! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss } How tasteless then whatever can be given ? Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise of health. In proof of this, Behold... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...sloth, no pride, no joy he hath : O leaden-hearted men, to be in love with death ! " Ah ! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss ? Ho* tasteless then whatever can be given ? Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise of... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...miry sloth, no pride, no joy he hath: O leaden-hearted men, to be in love with death! Ah ! what avail the largest gifts of heaven, when drooping health and spirits go amiss ! how tasteless then whatever can be giv'n I health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health. In proof of this, behold... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...sympathy over that ingenious, unfriended, and unfortunate youth ! — Dyer. *27. 1748. THOMSON DIED. Ah ! what avails the largest gifts of heaven, When...and spirits go amiss ? How tasteless then whatever can be given ! Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise of health. In proof of this, Behold... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...admirable stanzas; the following lines on Health possess equal truth and beauty : — Ah ! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping Health...and Spirits go amiss ? How tasteless, then, whatever can be given ! HEALTH is the vital principle of bliss, And Exercise of Health. — In proof of this,... | |
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