 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pàgines
...forgot: Monarchs! we envy not your state; We look with pity on the great, And bless our humbler lot. Our portion is not large, indeed; But then how little...this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do. We 'll therefore relish, with content, Whate'er kind Providence has... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pàgines
...forgot: Monarchs! we envy not your state; We look with pity on the great, And bless our humbler lot. Our portion is not large indeed; But then how little...this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do. We'll therefore relish with content Whate'er kind Providence had... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pàgines
...Monarchs ! we envy not your state ; We look with pity on the great, And bless our humbler lot. Onr portion is not large indeed; But then how little do...this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do. We'll therefore relish with content Whate'er kind Providence had... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pàgines
...The cavern wild with tangling roots, Sits o'er his newly-gathered fruits, Beside his crystal well! Our portion is not large, indeed, But then how little do we need! Famine, plague, war, and an unnumbered throng Of guilt-avenging ills, to man belong : What black, what... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pàgines
...forgot : Monarchs ! we envy not your state, We look with pity on the great, And bless our humble lot. Our portion is not large, indeed; But then, how little...this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do. We'll therefore relish with content Whate'er kind Providence has... | |
 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pàgines
...forgot : Monarchs, we envy not your state, We look with pity on the great, And bless our humble lot. Our portion is not large, indeed, But then, how little...this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do. Well therefore relish with content Whate'er kind Providence hath... | |
 | 1852 - 302 pàgines
...that Your portion is not large indeed, But then, how little do you need. For Nature's calls are few j In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do. There are few who have not, at one time or other, felt, how useful... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 334 pàgines
...forgot : Monarchs ! we envy not your state, We look with pity on the great, And bless our humble lot. Our portion is not large indeed ; But then, how little...this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do. We'll therefore relish with content Whate'er kind Providence has... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 322 pàgines
...forgot : Monarchs ! we envy not your state, We look with pity on the great, And bless our humble lot. Our portion is not large indeed ; But then, how little...this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do. We'll therefore relish with content Whate'er kind Providence has... | |
 | 1855 - 488 pàgines
...happy, until thou knowest that the things of this life are insufficient of themselves to make thee so. Our portion is not large indeed ! But then how little...this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do. This life is a passage, not a port. That disposition is opposite... | |
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Our portion is not large, indeed ; But then how little do we need ! For nature's calls are few : In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do. 
