 Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.  British Anthologies - Page 35edited by - 1899Full view - About this book
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...Cibber's Ctesar in Egypt. If there's a power above us, And that there is, all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works, he must delight in virtue : And that which he delights in must be happy. Addison's Cato. How oft that virtue, which some women boast, And pride themselves in, is but an empty... | |
 | Marc-Antoine Jullien - 1824 - 662 pages
...I hold : if there is a power above us » ( And that there is', ail nature cries alond » Thro' ail her works) he must delight in virtue , » And that which he delights in , must be happy. » « Je persévérerai : s'il ya un pouvoir au-dessus de nous ( et la nature entière crie à haute... | |
 | 1824 - 348 pages
...rest upon itHere will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And that there is, all nature cries aloud, Through all her works) he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must he happy. But when ! or where ! This world was made for Cse§ar. I'm weary of conjectures — this... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 564 pages
...which he will make his abode, bringing with him comfort and illumination. To use the poet's words : " He must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy." If indeed it were a moral virtue merely to believe a narrative on the credibility of the narrators,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1825 - 288 pages
...upon it. Here will I hold. If there 'sa Pow'r above us, (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue...happy. But when ! or where ! .This world was made for Csesar. I 'm weary of conjectures This must end 'em. [Laying his hand on his sivord. In utramque partem... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...And intimates eternity to man. If there's a Power above us, And that there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue, And that which he delights in must be happy. Nor is ease more contrary to wit than to sublimity ; the celebrated stanza of Cowley, on a lady elaborately... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...And intimates eternity to man. If there's a Power above us, And that there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue, And that which he delights in must be happy. Nor is ease more contrary to wit than to sublimity ; the celebrated stanza of Cowley, on a lady elaborately... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 488 pages
...And intimates eternity to man. If there's a Power above us, And that there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue, And that which he delights in must be happy. Nor is ease more contrary to wit than to sublimitv ; the celebrated stanza of Cowley, on a lady elaborately... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1825 - 414 pages
...daughter of the hamlet. " If there's a power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works, he must delight in virtue, And that which he delights in must be happy." Addison. RICHES. WHEAT.—Tr it icum. " Of golden wheat, the strength of human life." Philips. Floral... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...intimates eternity to man. — If there's a power above us, And that their is all nature cries alond Thro' all her works, he must delight in virtue, And that which he delights in must be happy. Nor is ease more contrary to wit than to sublimity ; the celebrated stanza of Cowley, on a lady elaborately... | |
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