 It's no in titles nor in rank ; It's no in wealth like Lon'on bank, To purchase peace and rest ; It's no in making muckle mair : It's no in books ; it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may...  Sidney Roemlee: A Tale of New England - Page 47by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1859 - 284 pages
...makin' muckl-e mair ;5 It 's no in books ; it 's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise,...nor pleasures, Could make us happy lang ; The heart ay 's the part ay, That makes us right or wrang. Think ye, that sic as you and I, Wha drudge and drive... | |
 | Severn river - 1859 - 408 pages
...makin' muckle mair: It 's no in books, it 's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise,...nor pleasures, Could make us happy lang; The heart aye 's the part aye, That makes us right or wrang. BURNS. ¿Ktáv в' екоита TÓI><) ¿Se^áfjLtjv... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1917 - 362 pages
...philosophy of benevolence with which Shaftesbury sought to warm the chill of eighteenth-century thought : The heart aye's the part aye That makes us right or wrang. The mood of this poem is Burns's middle mood, lying between the black melancholy of his poems of despair... | |
 | Frederick Parkes Weber - 1918 - 850 pages
...all, and that unless the mind has schooled itself to peace by the renunciation of covetous desires, ' We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest.' " This sounds exaggerated, but Horace was both a poet and a philosopher. De PnmdentiA, cap. ii.), which... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919 - 456 pages
...The noblest mind the best contentment has. EDMUND SPENSER If Happiness has not her seat And center in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest. 200 THE RUNAWAY CANNON VICTOR HUGO This selection is taken from a book called "Ninety-Three," by Victor... | |
 | 1919 - 538 pages
...world'a richei." or with the way that Burns sings of it : — " If happiness hae not her seat And center in the breast. We may be wise or rich or great, But never can be blest ; Xae treasures nor pleasures Could make us happy lang ; The heart ay 's the part ay, That makes us... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1920 - 390 pages
...mair; It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest: If happiness hae not her seat An' centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or...nor pleasures Could make us happy lang; The heart ay's the part ay That makes us right or wrang. Think ye, that sic as you and I, Wha drudge an' drive... | |
 | Frederick Henry Lynch - 1920 - 204 pages
...wealth. He has to imagine one side. I have lived both, and have learned that "If happiness has not its seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blessed." Beyond a competence for old age, and that need not be great, and may be very small, wealth... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1920 - 270 pages
...'Tis not in wealth like London bank, To make us truly blest. If happiness have not her seat And center in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest." 4. But you can not receive affection unless you will also give it. You can not find others to love... | |
 | George McLean Harper - 1922 - 212 pages
...in making muckle mair, It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest: If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise,...aye's the part aye That makes us right or wrang." On the harshness of church discipline and the hypocrisy of some who make profession of religion, he... | |
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