 | Henry Kirke White, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 360 pages
...bounding prospects all were made for me : For me yon waving fields their burden bear, For me yon labourer guides the shining share, While happy I in idle ease...sages often told, Converting all it touches into gold. HO Content can soothe where'er by fortune placed, Can rear a garden in the desert waste. How lovely,... | |
 | 1861 - 214 pages
...nothing to bestow; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut— our home.— Cotton. THIS is the charm, by sages often told, Converting all it touches into goldContent can soothe, where'er by fortune placed; Can rear a garden in a desert waste. — Kirke... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...bray when he hath grass ? or lovetfa, the ox отег his fodder ? Job. CONTENT-Soothmg Influence of. n gesture ; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And ; '.'cotent can soothe, where'er by fortune placed ; Can rear a garden in a desert waste. Kirte Whitt.... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 pages
...bounding prospects all were made for me : For me yon waving fields their burden bear ; For me yon labourer guides the shining share ; While, happy, I in idle...sages often told, Converting all it touches into gold. Clifton Grove. — HK WHITE. HAPPINESS. Frailty of Oh ! that the sum of human happiness Should be so... | |
 | 1865 - 418 pages
...bounding prospects all were made for me : For me yon waving fields their burden bear, For me yon labourer guides the shining share, While happy I in idle ease...into gold. Content can soothe where'er by fortune placed, Can rear a garden in the desert waste. How lovely, from this hill's superior height, Spreads... | |
 | 134 pages
...nothing to bestow; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut— our home.— Cotton. THIS is the charm, by sages often told. Converting...into gold — Content can soothe, where'er by fortune placed; Can rear a garden in a desert waste.— Kirke White. 7th Month, i TTTT "XT' Ol Anvm TREBEL... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode. Percival This is the charm, by sages often told, Converting...into gold : Content can soothe, where'er by fortune placed, Can rear a garden in a desert waste. Kirlce White. He, fairly looking into life's account,... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1870 - 296 pages
...bounding prospects all were made for me ; For me yon waving fields their burden bear, For me yon labourer guides the shining share, While happy I in idle ease...This is the charm, by sages often told, Converting nil it touches into gold. Content can soothe where'er by fortune placed, Can rear a garden in the desert... | |
 | Alfonzo Gardiner - 1872 - 82 pages
...378,629 4- 70, 80, 120. Prove. TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK, Lesson 13L— Learn for Monday Morning. CONTENTMENT. This is the charm, by sages often told, Con-vert-ing...into gold : Con-tent can soothe where'er by for-tune placed. Can rear a gar-den in a des-ert waste. — Kirke White. My wishes are but few, All eas-y to... | |
 | James Thomson - 1873 - 758 pages
...bounding prospects all were made for me : For me yon waving fields their burden bear, For me yon labourer guides the shining share, While happy I in idle ease...sages often told, Converting all it touches into gold. HO Content can soothe where'er by fortune placed, Can rear a garden in the desert waste. How lovely,... | |
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Though were his sight convey'd from zone to zone, He would not find one spot of ground his own, Yet, as he looks around, he cries with glee, These bounding prospects all were made for me : For me yon waving fields their... 
