 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pàgines
...signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants tho power to gain; With these celestial Wisdom calms the...mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. THE FOLLY OF PROCRASTINATION. To-morrow's action! can that hoary wisdom, - Borne down with years, still... | |
 | 1855 - 864 pàgines
...will ; Рог Faith, that panting for a happier seat Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat ; These goods for man, the laws of Heav'n ordain, These...the mind And makes the happiness she does not find. Give an accurate paraphrase of this passage. AKENSIDE. 7. Then with Promethean art Into its proper... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 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. PROLOGUE SPOKEN BY MR GARRICK, AT THE OPENING OF THE THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE, 1747. WHEN Learning's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 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. PROLOGUE SPOKEN BY MR GARRICK, AT THE OPENING OF THE THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE, 1747. WHEN Learning's... | |
 | 1855 - 604 pàgines
...goods lie gvaute, who nothing grants in vain — These goods He grants, who grant* the power to fain— With these celestial wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find." Lord SANDON, MP, also addressed the meeting, inculcating on the working men the expediency of co-operating... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pàgines
...— These goods for man the la»i> of heaven ordain, Thf »e golds he grants, who grants the power of gain ; With these celestial wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she docs not find. THE JOCBXEY OÏ LIFE. " Gbidah, the son of Abensina, left the caravansary early in the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pàgines
...These goods for man the Jaws of heav'n ordain ; These goods he grants, who grants the power to gaiuWith these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the...several stages of the English drama, from Shakespeare to Garrick. In sense, invention, and poetic expression, it is superior to any prologue of Dryden, and... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 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...the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. Some of these lines, if I am not mistaken, are noble in expression, as well as lofty and tender in... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pàgines
...cultivating the proper frame of mind. In the end it is the proper frame of mind alone that matters: With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. There is an antithesis in this final line of the poem between "makes" and "find," but it is not as... | |
 | John Barton - 1984 - 276 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. To a book which can be read in this way the last verse forms a fitting climax, and instead of being... | |
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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,... 
