| James Thomson - 1816 - 256 pages
...man's best delight to make p And by submissive wisdom, modest skill, With every gen.tie care-eluding art, To raise the virtues, animate the bliss, And...human life : This, be the female dignity and praise. Ye swains, now hasten to the hazel-bank : Where, down yon dale, the •wildly-winding brook Falls hoarse... | |
| James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - 1818 - 316 pages
...man's best delight to make ; \nd by submissive wisdom, modest skill, With every gentle care-eluding art, To raise the virtues, animate the bliss, And...human life : This be the female dignity, and praise. Ye swains now hasten to the hazel-bank ; Where, down yon dale, the wildly-winding brook Falls hoarse... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...man's best delight to make ; And by submissive wisdom, modest skill, With every gentle care-eluding tion, and the wonders of his might. Then staid the...in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepar'd Ye swains, now hasten to the hazel bank ; Where, down yon dale, the wildly-winding brook Falls hoarse... | |
| Dorothea Primrose Campbell - 1821 - 552 pages
...lived and died a stranger to the name, the love, the misfortunes of poor Ashberry. D 4 CHAPCHAPTER VI. To raise the virtues, animate the bliss, .And sweeten...human life—- This be the female dignity and praise. . TBOKSO*. I »>k of the hovering gale, if it come }'i\ m the oak-tow ering woods on the mountains... | |
| Hester Chapone - 1821 - 358 pages
...and equals; as designed to soften our hearts and polish our manners ; and, as Thomson finely says, To raise the virtues, animate the bliss, And sweeten all the toils of human life. I shall not repeat what I have there said on this subject ; and shall only observe, that, from the... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...man's best delight to make ; And by submissive wisdom, modest skill, With every gentle care-eluding art, To raise the virtues, animate the bliss, And...human life : This be the female dignity, and praise. Ye swains, now hasten to the hazel-bank; Where, down yon dale, the wildly-winding brook Falls hoarse... | |
| miss Aimwell (pseud.) - 1822 - 838 pages
...man': but delight to nuke ; And by submissive wisdom. modest skill, With every gentle, care-eluding art, To raise the virtues, animate the bliss, And sweeten all the tolls of buman life — This be the female dignity and praise. THOMSON . THE Heiress of Castlebrook.... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...man's best delight to make ; And by submissive wisdom, modest skill, With every gentle care-eluding art, To raise the virtues, animate the bliss, And...human life : This be the female dignity, and praise. THE WOODMAN. Forth goes the woodman , leaving unconcera'd The cheerful haunts of man ; to wield the... | |
| William Samuel Cardell - 1825 - 138 pages
...God, to lighten the load of human wo, and lead the way in every genial influence of the heart: 4 • " To raise the virtues, animate the bliss ; And sweeten all the toils of human life." Such may, with gain to themselves, forsake the grosser enjoyments of ordinary minds, for those congenial... | |
| James Thomson - 1826 - 268 pages
...man's best delight to make; And by submissive wisdom, modest skill, With every gentle care-eluding art, To raise the virtues, animate the bliss, And...human life: This be the female dignity and praise. Ye swains, now hasten to the hazel-bank: Where, down yon dale, the wildly-winding brook Falls hoarse... | |
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