MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assigned ; Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. The Saturday Magazine - Página 2441835Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 páginas
...mislead the morn. But my kisses bring again, Seals of love, but sealed in vain." The well-known lines, " My mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find, As far exceeds all earthly bliss, That God and nature hath assigned," seem to have had their origin... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 páginas
...mislead the morn. But my kisses bring again, Seals of love, but sealed in vain." The well-known lines, "My mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I 6nd, As far exceeds all earthly bliss, That God and nature hath assigned," seem to have had their origin... | |
| George Poole - 1858 - 58 páginas
...whistling seemed to emulate the birds. One might have fancied that he would next carol with the poet " My mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find." For when he ceased to whistle, we venture to say, he soon began to sing. Now why this joy ? A confined... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1860 - 364 páginas
...shrine. BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS. (FEOM BYRD'S ' PSALMS, SONNETS,' ETC. 1588.) 1 My mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That God or nature hath assigned: Though much I want that most would... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 páginas
...that possession would not show us While it was ours. SHAKESPEARE. Pg Pinb frr nte a Jlinglnnn is. Mr mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That God or nature hath assign'd : Though much I need that most would... | |
| Elizabethan age - 1862 - 83 páginas
...thee ; let the heart Be God's alone, and choose the better part. VAUGHAN. MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS. MY mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That God or Nature hath assign'd : Though much I want that most would... | |
| John Laurie Blake - 1862 - 236 páginas
...times, were most scrupulously observant of the laws of hospitality. LESSON EIGHTEENTH. CONTENTMENT. My mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find, As far exceeds all earthly bliss, That God or nature has assigned — Though much I want that most... | |
| Philobiblion - 1862 - 552 páginas
...Dyer, Edward Earl of Oxford, and their contemporaries, feveral of .which have never been publiihed : My mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find, As far exceeds all earthly blifs, That God or Nature hath affign'd. Though much I want that moft would... | |
| 1865 - 550 páginas
...whatever of this work we do. No boy or girl will be ungrateful, on whose lips we help to put the good old song : " My mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find, That it excells all other bliss That God or nature hath assigned. " I press to bear no haughty sway... | |
| John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...405. A mind content both crown and kingdom is. GREENE. — Song, " Sweet are the Thoughts," Last Line. My mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss, That God or nature hath assign'd : Though much I want, that most... | |
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