| John Bell - English poetry - 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.... | |
| English poetry - 1789 - 228 pages
...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 goods for man the laws of heaven ordain, These goods he grants, who grants the pow'r to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms... | |
| 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... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...o'er transmuted ill; For Faith, that panting for a happier seat, Counts Death kind Nature-s signal for retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heav-n ordain,...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 - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...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 goods for man the laws of heaven ordain, These goods he grants, who grants the pow'r to gain ; With these celestial wisdom calms... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmu ted 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. ON THE DEATH OF DR. ROBERT LEVET. fiONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, ^ As on we toil from day to day,... | |
| Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...can fill; For patience, sov'rtign 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. The month succeeding the publication of " The Vanity of Human Wishes," witnessed the crisis of our... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...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. * Vcr. 346— S66. PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK, AT THE OPENING OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY - LANE,... | |
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