 | James Thomson - 1750 - 270 pages
...Preferve the quick humanity it gives, The pitying, focial fenfe of human weaknefs : Yet keep thy Aubborn fortitude entire, The manly heart that to another's...loofe. Chief, let devotion to the fovereign mind, A Heady, chearful, abfolute dependence On his beft, wifeft government, poflefs thee. In thoaghtlefs,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1757 - 272 pages
...HERMIT. Perhaps, the lafl. — But, prince, remember, then, The vows, the noble ufes, of affliftion. Preferve the quick humanity it gives, The pitying,...firmly to the virtuous deeds And offices of life : to lif&itfelf, With all its vain and tranfient joys, fit loofe. Chief, let devotion to the fovereign mind,... | |
 | David Mallet - English poetry - 1759 - 252 pages
...thy generous fortitude entire, The manly heart, that to another's woe Is tender, as fuperior to it's own. Learn to fubmit : yet learn to conquer fortune....deeds And offices of life : to life itfelf, With all it's vain and tranfient joys, fit loofe. Chief, let devotion to the fovereign mind, A fteady, chearful,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 520 pages
...the struggle of this turbulent existence. Of these is one, a very favorite one, from his Alfred. " Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds " And offices of life ; to life itself, " With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose." Probably I have quoted some of these to... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 348 pages
...entire, The manly heart that to another's woe Is tender, but superior to its own. Learn to submit; yet learn to conquer fortune. Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds And offices of life : to life itself, With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose. Chief, let devotion to the sovereign mind,... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 336 pages
...entire, The manly heart that to another's woe Is tender, but superior to its own. Learn to submit ; yet learn to conquer fortune. Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds And offices of life : to life itself, With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose. Chief, let devotion to the sovereign mind,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 506 pages
...the struggle of this turbulent existence. Of these is one, a very favourite one, from his Alfred : " Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds And offices of life ; to life itself, With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose." Probably I have quoted some of these to you... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 pages
...the struggle of this turbulent existence. Of these is one, a very favourite one, from his Alfred. " Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds " And offices of life; to lite itself, " With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose." Probably I have quoted some of these... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 388 pages
...the struggle of this turbulent' existence. Of these is one, a very favourite one, from his Alfred : " Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds And offices of life : to life itself, With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose." . Probably I have quoted some of these to... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 658 pages
...the struggle of this turbulent existence. Of these is one, a very favourite one, from his Al/red. ' Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds And offices of life ; to life itself, With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose.' Probably I have quoted some of these to you... | |
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Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds And offices of life ; to life itself, With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose. 
