 With friendship, peace, and contemplation join'd, How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep retir'd distress. How many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest friends, And point the parting anguish. Thought fond man Of these, and all the...  The Life and Land of Burns - Page 261by Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...and contemplation join'd, How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop 345 In deep retir'd distress. How many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest...nameless ills, That one incessant struggle render life, 350 One scene of toil, of suffering and of fate; Vice in his high career would (land appall'd, And... | |
 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep retir'd distress. How many stand Around the death -bed of their dearest friends, And point the parting anguish....appall'd, And heedless rambling impulse learn to think ; The conscious heart of charity would warm , And her wide wish Benevolence dilate ; The social tear... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...passion, madness, guik, remorse! How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep retir'd distress ! How many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest...incessant struggle render life One scene of toil, of sutFring, and of fate, Vice in his high career would stand appall' d, And heedless rambling impulse... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...peace, and contemplation join'd, How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep retir'd distress. How many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest...appall'd, And heedless rambling Impulse learn to think; The conscious heart of Charity would warm, And her wide wish Benevolence dilate; The social tear would... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...peace, and contemplation join'd, How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep retir'd distress. How many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest...appall'd, And heedless rambling Impulse learn to think; The conscious heart of Charity would warm, And her wide wish Benevolence dilate; The social tear would... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...peace, and contemplation join'd, How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep retir'd distress. How many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest...suffering, and of fate, Vice in his high career would stand appall 'd, And heedless rambling impulse learn to think) The conscious heart of charity would warm,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep retir'd distress. How many stand Around the death-hed of their dearest friends, And point the parting anguish....his high career would stand appall'd, And heedless ramhling Impulse learn to think; The conscious heart of Charity would warm, And her wide wish Benevolence... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
..., and contemplation join'd , How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep retir'd distress. How many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest...That one incessant struggle render life , One scene oftoil,of suffering , and of fate , Vice in his high career would stand appall'd , And heedless rambling... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1803 - 228 pages
...and contemplation join'd, How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep retir'd distress — How many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest friends, And point the parting anguish. Think, fond man, Of these, and all the thousand nameless ills, That one incessant struggle, render... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...and Contemplation join'd, How many, rack'd with honest passions droop 345 In deep retir'd distress ! how many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest...nameless ills That one incessant struggle render life, 350 One scene of toil, of suffering and of fate, Vice in his high career would stand appall'd, And... | |
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