 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the joy ! ye, whom the sudden tear Surprises often while you look around, And nothing strikes your eye but sights of...useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven. These are the matchless joys of virtuous love ; And thus their moments fly. The seasons thus, As ceaseless... | |
 | Jane Porter, Anna Maria Porter - 1828 - 260 pages
...desire—all that is good for the best of men—much more than may be safely trusted to imperfect ones. " AD elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet,...useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven," Such was the earthly destiny of Alicia, dearer to her than all she had resigned of pomp, place, and... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Authors, English - 1828 - 492 pages
...Surprises often, while ye look around, And nothing meets your eye but sights of bliss ! A moderate sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship,...useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven ! This piece of family detail will not, I trust, be thought incongruous with my general narrative,... | |
 | 1828 - 614 pages
...me neither poverty nor riches, but feed me with food convenient for me." — Solomon. " A moderate sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship,...life. Progressive virtue, and approving heaven.*' Thomson. SAY, Drew, canst thou spare minutes fire ? To read what a minstrel shall write ; A bee, that... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...in the glowing breast. 6 Oh, speak the joy! ye, whom the sudden tear Surprises often, while you look around, And nothing strikes your eye but sights of...Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alteraate labor, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven! 7 These are the matchless joys... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...sudden tear Surprises often, while you look around, And nothing strikes your eye but sights of bllis, All various Nature pressing on the heart? An elegant...useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven, These are the matchless joys of virtuous love , And thus their moments fly. The Seasons thui, As ceaseless... | |
 | James Cossar Ewart - 1830 - 494 pages
...We feel the present Deity, and taste The joy of God to see a happy world; Where nothing strikes the eye but sights of bliss, All various nature pressing...rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease, and alternate labor, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven \ We feel the present Deity, and taste... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...in the glowing breast. Oh, speak the joy ! ye, whom the sudden tear Surprises often, while you look around, And nothing strikes your eye but sights of...useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven ! These are the matchless joys of virtuous love ; And thus their moments fly. The Season* thus, As... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 pages
...purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the joy! ye, whom the sudden tear Surprises often, while you look around. And nothing strikes your eye but sights of...useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven. These are the matchless joys of virtuous love ; And thus their moments fly. The Seasons thus. As ceaseless... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 200 pages
...tear » . Surprises often, while you look around, •" — / » r* And nothing strikes your eye hut sights of bliss, All various Nature pressing on the...life,— ~ Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven. These are tbe matchless joys of virtuous love, And thus their moments fly. The Seasons thus, As ceaseless... | |
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An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven. 
