 | Excerpta Tudoriana - 1814 - 350 pagina’s
...leads my will; Hope all my mind delights. In lowly vales I mount To Pleasure's highest pitch; My seely shroud true honour brings; My poor estate is rich....high for base contempt;. Too low for Envy's shot. My wishes are but few, All easy to fulfill; I make the limits of my power I have no hopes but one,... | |
 | 1814 - 280 pagina’s
...leads my will; Hope all my mind delights. In lowly vales I mount To Pleasure's highest pitch; My scely shroud true honour brings; My poor estate is rich....too high for base contempt; Too low for Envy's shot. My wishes are but few, All easy to fulfill; I make the limits of my power I have no hopes but one,... | |
 | 1821 - 408 pagina’s
...minds— Love's service is in vain." These lines are characteristic of the author's turn of mind. " My conscience is my crown, Contented thoughts, my...My bliss is in my breast. Enough, I reckon wealth; That mean, the surest lot, That lies too high for base contempt, Too low for envy's shot. My wishes... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pagina’s
...dyes and buoyancy uninjured, so do the spirits youth quickly resume their elasticity and bril»ncy. MY conscience is my crown, Contented thoughts, my...itself, My bliss is in my breast. Enough I reckon wealth ; That mean, the surest lot, That lies too high for base contempt, Too low for envy's shot. My wishes... | |
 | John N Woodroffe - 1839 - 408 pagina’s
...22. 2 Cor. i. 12. Gal. vi. 4. 1 Tim. i. 19; iii. 9. 2 Tim. i. 3. Heb. xiii. 18. 1 John iii. 19, 21. My conscience is my crown, Contented thoughts my rest;...heart is happy in itself, My bliss is in my breast. B. Southwell, 1596. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.... | |
 | 1840 - 698 pagina’s
...Museum.—ED.] I DWELL in Grace's court, In lowly vales I mount To pleasure's highest pitch, My silly garb true honour brings, My poor estate is rich. My conscience...My bliss is in my breast. Enough, I reckon wealth ; That mean, the surest lot That lies too high for poor contempt, Too low for envy's shot. My wishes... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pagina’s
...Hope all my mind delights. In lowly vales I mount To pleasure's highest pitch, My silly shroud 3 sure honour brings, My poor estate is rich. My conscience...too high for base contempt, Too low for envy's shot. My wishes are but few, All easy to fulfil; I make the limits of my power The bounds unto my will. 1... | |
 | 1843 - 802 pagina’s
...all my mind delights. From lowly vale I mount To pleasure's highest pitch ; My simple garb true honor brings, My poor estate is rich. My conscience is my...itself, My bliss is in my breast. Enough I reckon wealth ; That mean the surest lot, Which lies too high for base contempt, Too low for envy's shot. My wishes... | |
 | 1846 - 644 pagina’s
...of that lake where it was first toweJ. THE HAPPINESS OF CONTENTMENT. K.VOCCH, I reckon wealth; That mean the surest lot That lies too high for base Contempt— Too low for Envy's shot. My wishes are but few— All easy to fulfil; I tiiake the limits of my power The bounds unto my will.... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pagina’s
...; Yet grass is green, when flowers do fade away. -Ibid. CONTENTMENT. ENOUGH I reckon wealth ; That mean, the surest lot That lies too high for base contempt, Too low for envy's shot. All easy to fulfil : I make the limits of my power My wishes are but few, The bounds unto my will.... | |
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shroud true honour brings, My poor estate is rich. My conscience is my crown, Contented thoughts, my rest; My heart is happy in itself, My bliss is in my breast. Enough I reckon wealth, A mean the surest lot; That lies too high for base contempt, Too... 
