 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pàgines
...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 power...the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. Johnson. 1 Marlborough's, S;c, — He was afflicted with paralysis; " but," says a writer in the Penny... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pàgines
...happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of Heav'u ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power...the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. 235.— A DEFENCE OF ENTHUSIASM. HT TnCKEBMAN. [HENRY THEODORE TUCKERMAN is a living American writer,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pàgines
...retreat : These goods for man the laws of Heav'n ordain, These goods HE grants, who grants the pow'r to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. WARTON. THE GRAVE OF KING ARTHUR. KING HEIVBY the Second, havin? undertaken nn expedition into Ireland,... | |
 | 1849 - 642 pàgines
...seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain'd, These goods he grants, who grants the power to gain...mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.' In a word, whoever honestly, conscientiously, faithfully, and perseveringly, frequents the Lord's table,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pàgines
...the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these eelestial wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. •• - Dn. JOHNSON. INTERESTING VARIETIES. THE flea, grasshopper, and locust, jump two hundred times... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1850 - 72 pàgines
...happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal for retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain ; These goods He grants, who grants the power...mind, And makes the happiness she does not find." APPENDIX. 1. Idols. It is not foreign to the subject of the preceding Lecture to notice these false... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pàgines
...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 power...mind And makes the happiness she does not find. The other poetical productions of Johnson are short and occasional, and do not require any farther notice.... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pàgines
...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 the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. CHAPTER XXX. ALEXANDER SELKIRK. I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 pàgines
...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 the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. yanity of Human Wishes. Prosperity. Prosperity, as is truly asserted by Seneca, very much obstructs... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pàgines
...retreat : These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods he grants, who grants the power to With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. JOHN HAWKESWOETH. BoBN.1715; DIED, 1773. HYMN. IN sleep's serene oblivion laid, I safely pass'd the... | |
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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. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants,... 
