 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,...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - 150. oldalszerző: James Boswell - 1901Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | 1789 - 228 oldal
...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 oldal
...panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal for retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants...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 oldal
...for a happier seat, " Counts death kind Nature's signal for retreat. " These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, " These goods he grants, who grants...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 oldal
...panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal for retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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. PROLOGUE • SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK, AT THE OPENING OF THE THE ATRE-ROTALj DRTJRY-LANE, 1747. WHEN learning's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 oldal
...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 oldal
...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...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 - 520 oldal
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 oldal
...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. * Vcr. 346— S66. PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK, AT THE OPENING OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY - LANE,... | |
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