 | 1789 - 228 pagina’s
...patience, sov'reign 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...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.*... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pagina’s
...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,...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 pagina’s
...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,...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 pagina’s
....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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...patience, sov'reign 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...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...Patience, sovereign 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...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pagina’s
...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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For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign 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,... 
