 And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill, For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, which panting for...  The life of Samuel Johnson - Page 84by James Boswell - 1820Full view - About this book
 | 1789 - 228 pages
...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.* EPISTLE III. LONDON. By the Same, Quis ineptae Tarn patiens ur.iis, tarn ferreus ut teneat se f. Juv.... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 442 pages
...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, who grants the- p ow'r to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...fires, t' And strong devotion to the skies aspires, " Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, t: Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; " For love,...being manager of Drury-lane theatre, he kindly and generously made use of it to bring out Johnson's tragedy, which had been long kept back for want of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd...mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.' Monarchy and bishops, he was plundered by the parliament forces, and twice carried away prisoner from... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd...mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.' Monarchy and bishops, he was plundered by the parliament forces, and twice carried away prisoner from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...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, who grants the pow'r to gain ; With these celestial wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 pages
...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. • Yer. 34«— &PROLOGUE, tl'OKFX ST MR GAKRICK, ^t the Opening of the Theatre Royal, DRUB v LANE,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 644 pages
...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,...mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.' We confess ourselves enthusiastic about Dr. Johnson ; but, perhaps, after all, it may be worth while... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...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. ON THE DEATH OF DR. ROBERT LEVET. fiONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, ^ As on we toil from day to day,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...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. The month succeeding the publication of " The Vanity of Human Wishes," witnessed the crisis of our... | |
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