 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...truest friends, thro' error, wound our rest; Without misfortune, what calamities ! And what hottilities T}- fail, than cause to sigh. § 152. Sympathy. WHAT then am I, who sorrow for myself? In ace, in infancy,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...us not our wish. How distant oft the thing we dote on most From that for which we dote, felicity ? The smoothest course of Nature has its pains. And...wound our rest. Without misfortune what calamities I And what hostilities without a. foel Nor are foes wanting to the best on earth. But endless is the... | |
 | Edward Young - 1810 - 278 pages
...for which we doat, felicity! The smoothest course of Nature has its pains, And truest friends, thro' error, wound our rest. Without misfortune what calamities!...endless is the list of human ills, And sighs might so oner fail than cause to sigh. A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man ? the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pages
...doat, felicity ! The smoothest course of Nature has its pains! And truest friend.-, through errour, wound our rest. Without misfortune, what calamities...foes wanting to the best on Earth. But endless is the lUt of human ills, And sighs mij;ht sooner fail, than cause to sijh. A part how small of the terraqueous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 pages
...his joys to death. -The smoothest course of Nature has ils pains! And truest friends, through errour, wound our rest. Without misfortune, what calamities...hostilities, without a foe ! Nor are foes wanting to the hest on Earth. But endless is the list of human ills, Arid sighs might sooner fail, than cause to sigh.... | |
 | Henrietta Maria Moriarty - 1811 - 216 pages
...not our wish ; How distant oft the thing we doat on most, From that for which we doat—felicity ] The smoothest course of nature has its pains, And...is the list of human ills, And sighs might sooner fail, than cause to sigh.— THE END. Youxe. B. CJUUKB, Prinur, W*)jjrif*et, Lortuu. V \ . » • •••... | |
 | Edward Young - 1812 - 814 pages
...us not our wish. How distant oft the thing we dote on most, From that for which we dote, felicity! The smoothest course of Nature has its pains, And...is the list of human ills, And sighs might sooner fail than cause to sigh. A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man? the rest a waste;... | |
 | Edward Young - 1813 - 380 pages
...us not our wish. How distant oft the thing we doat on most, From that for which we doat, felicity! The smoothest course of nature has its pains ; And...is the list of human ills, And sighs might sooner fail, than cause to sigh. A part how small of the terraqueous globe '. •.. * ON LIFE, DEATH, AND... | |
 | Edward Young - 1813 - 324 pages
...us not our wish. How distant oft the thing we dote on most From that for which we dote, felicity ! The smoothest course of Nature has its pains, And...is the list of human ills, And sighs might sooner fail than cause to sigh. A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man ! the rest a... | |
 | Edward Young - 1815 - 332 pages
...us not our wish. How distant oft the thing we doat on most, From that from which we doat, felicity ! The smoothest course of nature has its pains ; And...is the list of human ills, And sighs might sooner fail, than cause to sigh. , . A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man; the rest... | |
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And truest friends, through error, wound our rest Without misfortune, what calamities! And what hostilities, without a foe! Nor are foes wanting to the best on earth. But endless is the list of human ills, And sighs might sooner fail than cause to sigh. 
