 | English poetry - 1789 - 228 pages
...death kind Nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of heaven ordain, These goods he grants, who grants the pow'r to gain ; With these...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... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 442 pages
...retreat : These goods for man the laws of heaven ordain, These goods he grants, who grants the- p ow'r to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. EPISTLE III. LONDON. By the Same, quj, ineptae Tam patiens urbis, tun ferreus ut teneat... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.' Monarchy and bishops, he was plundered by the parliament forces, and twice carried... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...retreat. " These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, " These goods he grants, who grants the power to gain ; '' With these celestial wisdom calms the mind, " And makes the happiness she does not find." Garrick being now vested with theatrical power by being manager of Drury-lane theatre,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.' Monarchy and bishops, he was plundered by the parliament forces, and twice carried... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...Death kind Nature-s signal for retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heav-n ordain, , ' These goods he grants who grants the pow-r to gain ; With these,...mind, ' And makes the happiness she docs not find. Vanity of Human Wiihe*. PROSPERITY. Prosperity, as is truly asserted by Seneca, very much obstructs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...death kind nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of heaven ordain, These goods he grants, who grants the pow'r to gain ; With these...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 328 pages
...Counts death kind Nature's signal oT retreat: These goods for man the laws of Heav'n ordain, These goods he grants, who grants the pow'r to gain; With these...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,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...death kind nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of heav'n ordain, These goods he grants, who grants the pow'r to gain; With these...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...death kind nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of heav'n ordain,' These goods he grants, who grants the pow'r to gain; With these...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... | |
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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, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial... 
