| John Bell - 1789 - 442 strani
...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.... | |
| 1789 - 228 strani
...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.... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 strani
...fill, For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, which panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal for retreat. These goods...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 - 496 strani
...patience, sovereign o'er .transmuted ill ; " For faith, which panting for a happier seat, " Counts death kind Nature's signal for retreat. " These goods...mind, " And makes the happiness she does not find." Garrick being now vested with theatrical power by being manager of Drury-lane theatre, he kindly and... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 strani
...fill, For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, which panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal for retreat. These goods...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 - 1804 - 594 strani
...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 docs not find. Vanity of Human Wiihe*. PROSPERITY. Prosperity, as is truly asserted by Seneca, very... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 strani
...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 strani
...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,... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 514 strani
...For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; " For faith, which panting for a happier seat, " Counts death kind Nature's signal for retreat, " These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, " With these celestial wisdom calms the mind, " These goods he grants, who grants the power to gain... | |
| 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 strani
...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... | |
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