| Juvenal - 1837 - 306 pages
...gives, he gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd; 360 For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted... | |
| 1840 - 378 pages
...gives, he gives the best. Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted... | |
| Selected letters - 1842 - 318 pages
...applied to the communion : " But when the sense of sacred presence fires, A strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill... | |
| John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 pages
...skies? He replies: — Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign' d, For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted... | |
| John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 pages
...skies? He replies: — Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a witl resign' d, For love, which scarce collective man can Jitl; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 656 pages
...which treats of the same melancholy subject, and closes with this sublime strain of morality : — • For Love, which scarce collective man can fill; For Patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For Faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat : These... | |
| Readings - 1843 - 466 pages
...supplicating voice, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient...can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat: These... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...gives, he gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies d they see, The rough abode of want and liberty, (As...below? What wonder, in the sultry climes that spread, ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat : These... | |
| Charles Knight - 1844 - 246 pages
...station ; those blessings which are thus beautifully described by our great moralist, Dr. Johnson : — " Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient...can fill ; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat ; These... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...gives, he gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies and Robert Chambers till ; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts... | |
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