 Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage and the human breast Torments alike with raging fires; With bright, but oft destructive, gleam, Alike o'er all his lightnings fly ; Thy lambent glories only beam Around the fav'rites of the sky.  La Belle Assemblée - Stran 391812Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Robert Tyas - 1869 - 298 strani
...bidding with success. IVY (Hedera helix).—FRIENDSHIP. " Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied." FRIENDSHIP is represented by a device in which Ivy is growing round a fallen... | |
 | 1873 - 182 strani
...with the motto, " Nothing can detach me from it :" — Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. Miss Twamley thus characterizes it : — The Ivy, that staunchest and firmest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 strani
...the happiness she does not find. ODES. FRIENDSHIP. PBIENDSHIP ! peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. While love, unknown among the bless'd, Parent of thousand wild desires, The... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 strani
...Gentleman's Magazine of this year. FRIENDSHIP, an ODE.* FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world deny'd. While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage... | |
 | 1879 - 512 strani
...finely described. I remember the opening lines : — ' Friendship, peculiar bo jn of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.' " " But, then, it is very hard to find a true friend," Lady Moore quietly... | |
 | Aristos Philadelphus - 1880 - 272 strani
...sincerity its rule, and mutual improvement its result. Friendship, peculiars boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride ; To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. Directress of the brave and just, Oh guide us on life's darksome way ! And... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 strani
...Songs of Many Reasons. Our Classmate, *'. WC, 1864. Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble ds, belongs the merchant! — o'er * goods sails with him as the lower world denied, ji. SAM'L JOHNSON — Friendship. An Ode. Come back! ye friendships long departed!... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 strani
...holy tie — Is made more sacred by adversity. DRYDEK. Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. SAMUEL JOHMSON. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 strani
...a moral, or adorn a tale Samuel Johnson, FRIENDSHIP. FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. Samuel Johns jn. PASTORAL BALLAD. YK shepherds so cheerful and gay, Whose flocks... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 strani
...Gentleman's Magazine " of this year. FRIENDSHIP, AN ODE.* " Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. " While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The... | |
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