 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...love gushed from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware. n. COLERIDGE — The Ancient Mariner. Pt. IV. th girls. A. HORACE— Of the Art of Poetry. L. 272. Went worth Dillon's trans. o. COXGHEVE — The Mourning Bride. ActV. Sc. 3. Bless the hand that gave the blow. p. DRYDEN— The... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pages
...dwell. COLLINS. Still in the paths of honour persevere, And not from past nor present ills despair; For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds. CoNGREvE: Mourning Bride. Are domestic comforts dead ? Are all the nameless sweets of friendship fled... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pages
...Good-Natured Man, Epilogue. " Bless'd is the bride on whom the sun doth shine.' HERRICK. Hesperides, 283. " Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds ; And though a late, a sure reward succeeds." CONGREVE. The Mourning Bride (Alphonso), Act V., Sc. XII. " Blest be those. How mean soe'er, that have... | |
 | 1897 - 184 pages
...may be unable fully to realize our ideal, yet woe be to us if we have no ideal to realize. WHATELY. Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds. CONGREVE. Walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time. Faith always implies disbelief... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1899 - 620 pages
...his beloved may •Still in the paths of honour persevere And not from past or present ills despair; For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds ; And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.' * Vol. ii. p. 85 of Dr. G. Birkbcck Hill's edition (1887), where see the editor's note showing with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...Thus Congreve concludes the Tragedy of " The Mourning Bride " with the following foolish couplet : " For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though...virtuous, a Brutus, a Cato, or a Socrates, finally sink under the pressure of accumulated misfortune, we are not only led to entertain a more indignant... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...Thus Congreve concludes the tragedy of 'The Mourning Bride' with the following foolish couplet : 1 invasion of any of the divine attributes in the invocation of saints. But I succeeds.1 " When a man eminently virtuous, a Brutus, a Cato, от а Socrates, anally sinks under... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 540 pages
...Mrs. Congreve concludes the Tragedy of ' The Mourning Bride ' with the following foolish couplet : ' For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though...from his distress, but we are inevitably induced to cnerish the sublime idea that a day of future retribution will arrive when he shall receive not merely... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pages
...constant concomiUntt, or, as expressed by Congrcve, In the conclusion of the * Mourning Bride,'— 1 That blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.' " 240 241 With not л (ingle note the purse supply, And when she begs, let men and maids deny ; Be... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pages
...Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.8 Act Hi. Sc. s. For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward sncceeds. Act ». Sc. ». If there 's delight in love, 't is when I see That heart which others bleed... | |
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When a man eminently virtuous, a Brutus, a Cato, or a Socrates, finally sinks under the pressure of accumulated misfortune, we are not only led to entertain a more indignant hatred of vice, than if he... 
