 Content I live, this is my stay; I seek no more than may suffice; I press to bear no haughty sway; Look, what I lack my mind supplies. Lo, thus I triumph like a king, Content with that my mind doth bring.  The Second Reader, Or Juvenile Companion - Stran 24avtor: John Lauris Blake - 1833Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1854 - 456 strani
...exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assigned ; Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. Content I live, this...than may suffice ; I press to bear no haughty sway ; I see how plenty surfeits oft, And hasty climbers soonest fall ; I see that such as sit aloft Mishap... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 322 strani
...all earthly blisse, That God or Nature hath assignde : Though much I want, that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. Content I live, this is my stay ; I seek no more than may suffice ; I presse to beare no haughtie sway ; Look what I lack my mind supplies. Loe ! thus I triumph like a king,... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 strani
...exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assigned ; Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. Content I live, this...than may suffice ; I press to bear no haughty sway ; I see how plenty surfeits oft, And hasty climbers soonest fall ; I see that such as sit aloft Mishap... | |
 | 1855 - 458 strani
...exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assigned ; Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. Content I live, this...than may suffice ; I press to bear no haughty sway; I see how plenty surfeits oft, And hasty climbers soonest fall ; I see that such as sit aloft Mishap... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1856 - 576 strani
...Nature hath assignde : Though much I want, that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. 6 Content I live, this is my stay ; I seek no more than may suffice: I presse to beare no baughtic sway ; Look what I lack my mind supplies. 10 thus I triumph like a king,... | |
 | 1858 - 460 strani
...exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assigned ; Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. Content I live, this...supplies. Lo ! thus I triumph like a king, Content with that my mind doth bring. I see how plenty surfeits oft, And hasty climbers soonest fall ; I see that... | |
 | English poetry - 1858 - 396 strani
...all earthly blisse, That God or Nature hath assignde: Though much I want, that most would have, 5 Yet still my mind forbids to crave. Content I live, this is my stay; I seek no more than may suffice: I presse to beare no haughtie sway; Look what I lack my mind supplies. 10 Loe! thus I triumph like a... | |
 | 1861 - 356 strani
...rest in little is our greatest good. HEADMOST. The noblest mind the best contentment has. SPENSEE. Content I live; this is my stay— I seek no more than may suffice. I presse to beare no haughtic sway; Look, what I lack my mind supplies. Lol thus I triumph like a king,... | |
 | English poetry - 1864 - 398 strani
...by Sir Edward Dyer, a friend of Sir Philip Sidney, and who was praised by Bacon and Spenser.— ED. Content I live, this is my stay; I seek no more than may suffice: I presse to beare no haughtie sway; Look what I lack my mind supplies. 10 Loe! thus I triumph like a... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 strani
...exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assigned. Though much I want, that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. Content I live ; this...supplies. Lo ! thus I triumph like a king, Content with that my mind doth bring. * * & Some have too much, yet still they crave , I little have, yet seek no... | |
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