 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pagina’s
...gratitude , So burthensome , still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receiv'd ; Ana understood not that a grateful mind By owing, owes not , but still pays , at once Indebted and discharg'd; what burthen then? O had his pow'rful destiny ordain'd Me some inferior angel , I had stood... | |
 | James Burgh - 1804 - 312 pagina’s
...higher Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt immense of endless gratitude* So burdensome, still paying, still to owe. Forgetful what from him I still received, Self-Co»And understood not, that a. grateful mind 4emnatio«, By owing owes not, but still pays ;... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pagina’s
...endless gratitude, So burdensome still paying, still to owe, Forgetful what from him I still receiv'd; And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd ; what burden then ! O had his pow'rful destiny ordain'd Me some inferior Angel, I had stood... | |
 | Ann Murry - 1807 - 278 pagina’s
...extraordinary, as it is a debt every one has power to pay ; as Milton thus emphatically describes it : " A grateful mind, by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged ;" which implies, that gratitude is the only tribute required, when it is not in your power to make... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pagina’s
...endless gratitude, So burdensome, still paying, still to owe ; Forgetful what from him I still receiv'd ; And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes...still pays at once Indebted and discharged ; what burthen then? O iiad his pow'rful destiny ordain'd Me some inferior angel, I had stood Then happy ;... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pagina’s
...endless gratitude, I So burdensome still paying, still to owe, Forgetful what from him I still recciv'd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd ; what burden then ? O had his pow'rful destiny ordain'd Me some inferior Angel, I had stood... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pagina’s
...endless gratitude, So burdensome still paying, still to owe, Forgetful what from him I still receiv'd And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd; what burden then? O had his powerful destiny ordain'd Me some inferior Angel, I had stood... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pagina’s
...endless gratitude, So burthcnsome still paying, still to ow«, Forgetful what from him I still reeeiv'd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and disrharg'd ; what burthen then ? O had his powerful destiny ordain'd Me some inferior angel, I had... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1817 - 640 pagina’s
...generosity has its return in its own breast (Acts, ch. v.) ; and, for myself, I trust it will prove, that " a grateful mind, by owing, owes not, but still pays; at once indebted and discharged ;" and therefore once more subscribe myself Your much obliged, J. PLUMPTRE. LETTER CXXII. Dr. LETTSOM... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 pagina’s
...higher Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burdensome still paying, still to owe, Forgetful what from him...at once Indebted and discharged ; what burden then ? O, had his powerful destiny ordain'd Me some inferior Angel, I had stood Then happy; no unbounded... | |
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And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged... 
