 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 360 páginas
...These observations in favour of the Boman people, may now be very justly applied to our own nation. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And...virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy. This will be allowed, I hope, to be as virtuous a sentiment as that which he quotes out of Terence;... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 páginas
...stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. — If there's a power above us, And that there is all...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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 324 páginas
...These observations in favour of the Roman people, may now be very justly applied to our own nation. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And...her works) He must delight in virtue; And that which be delights in must be happv. ' This will be allowed, I hope, to be as virtuous a sentiment as that... | |
 | Spectator The - 1823 - 352 páginas
...pass f The wide, Hi' unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest npon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us,...Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue ; And thai which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where I This world was made for Caesar. I'm weary... | |
 | 1823 - 392 páginas
...dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ? The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before...shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold—If there's a Power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,... | |
 | 1824 - 660 páginas
...dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before...happy.) But when? or where? This world was made for Caesar. I'm weary of conjectures : This mast end 'em. ( Luyinrf his hand on his suxtrd. ) Thus am I... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 458 páginas
...dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untry'd being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ? The wide, the unbounded .prospect lies before...happy. But when, or where ? — this world was made for Caesar : I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them. [Laying his Hand on his Sword, Thus am I... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 páginas
...weeks' daily examination. 18 This my little book had for its motto, these lines from Addison's Cato: " Here will I hold : if there's a power above us, (And...virtue: And that which he delights in must be happy !" 19 Another from the Proverbs of Solomon, speaking of wisdom and virtue : "Length of days is in her... | |
 | 1824 - 348 páginas
...wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me — But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon itHere will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And that...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 548 páginas
...that stirs within us : 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. If there's a power above us, And that there is all...Through all her works, he must delight in virtue, Arid that which he delights in must be happy. Nor is ease more contrary to wit than to sublimity :... | |
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The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. 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... 
