 Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage and the human breast Torments alike with raging fires; With bright, but oft destructive, gleam, Alike o'er all his lightnings fly ; Thy lambent glories only beam Around the fav'rites of the sky.  La Belle Assemblée - Page 391812Full view - About this book
 | Gift books - 1853 - 406 pages
...again, we shall part no more." FRIENDSHIP. BY 8. JOHNSON. FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. While Love, unknown among the blessed, Parent of thousand wild desires, The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 pages
...AN ODE. PRINTED IN THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, 1743. 1 FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride — To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied ! 2 While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand -wild desires, The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...AN ODE. PRINTED IN THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, 1748. 1 FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride — To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied ! 2 While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The... | |
 | Gift books - 1856 - 286 pages
...live, and live to love ! 224 FRIENDSHIP. FRIENDSHIP. FRIENDSHIP ! peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage... | |
 | Great Britain - 1857 - 588 pages
...alone is man's. Dr. Samuel Johnson. FBIENDSHIP. — Friendship ! peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride ; To men and angels only given — To all the lower world denied. Dr. Samuel Johnson. WAS BYRON OR SCOTT THE GREATER POET ? AFFIRMATIVE AHTIOLK.... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...Gentleman's Magazine of this year. FRIENDSHIP, AN ODE.* " Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. " While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1860 - 496 pages
...Gentleman's Magazine of this year. FRIENDSHIP, AN ODE.* " Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. " While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The... | |
 | Life-lights - 1864 - 344 pages
...JAMES THOMSON, 1700-1746. —The Seasons. FRIENDSHIP. FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...love, and all my woe?' T. CAMPBELL 699 FRIENDSHIP T^RIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heaven, -T the noble mind's delight and pride, to men and angels only given, to all the lower world denied! while love, unknown among the bless'd, parent of thousand wild desires, the... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...Living or dying none were blest. JAMES MONTGOMERY. Friendship ! peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. — JOHNSON. Oh, friendship ! if my soul forego Thy dear delight while here... | |
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