 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
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...instantly did. tO hill). [i744 FRIBNDbHIP, AN ODE. [*] Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble had written nothing else, would have the lower world denied. While love unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 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 deny'd. While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Friendship - 1900 - 246 pages
...character, but of pure and spontaneous feeling. Dr. Johnson's Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied — is conjectural as far as concerns the angels, and not demonstrably true... | |
 | 1900 - 124 pages
...brought thee to me, and He said, ' Behold a friend.'" " FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied." AND Ruth said, " Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from the following... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1901 - 404 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 savage... | |
 | William Saunders Crawford - Church history - 1901 - 608 pages
...order to be loved. CHAPTEE XI THE FRIENDS OF SYNESIUS Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and Angels only given, To all the lower world denied. OF the frieiids of Synesius, a goodly throng, some were persons who in their... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 930 pages
...Night II. DR. E. YOUNG. * La Bruyere, says Bartlett. Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all tbe lower world denied. Friendship : An Ode. DR. s. JOHNSON. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar... | |
 | Friendship - 1911 - 120 pages
...is Friendship in its noblest part. — Earl of Orrey. FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. — Samuel Johnson. FRIENDSHIP is a plant which cannot be forced. True friendship... | |
 | Friendship - 1914 - 152 pages
...till he become old. JEREMY TAYLOR 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... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...repair. SAMUEL JOHNSON — Boswett's Life. (1755) 11 Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble 0 鴁 & 0 c Ԧ the lower world denied. SAMUEL JOHNSON — Friendship. An Ode. 12 The endearing elegance of female... | |
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