 | Sir Henry Wotton - 1845 - 236 pagina’s
...[all inf] Superlatives ; Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Then ever Fortune would have made them mine ; And hold one minute of this holy leisure Beyond the riches of this empty pleasure. • " Ad tnftl it a piece of coin, value ten shillings. The words to ' n> angefe' are a metonymy, and... | |
 | sir Henry Wotton - 1845 - 222 pagina’s
...inf ] Superlatives ; Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Then ever Fortune would have made them mine ; And hold one minute of this holy leisure Beyond the riches of this empty pleasure. The words to ' Beggar's Daughter of Bethnal Green (Percy, ii. 165, ed. 1787,) is more to the point.... | |
 | Anne Marsh- Caldwell - 1845 - 666 pagina’s
...was going on, to be sensible of the void within my soul. CHAPTER XII. Weleome pure thoughts, weleome, ye silent groves, These guests, these courts, my soul most dearly loves. SIB II. WOTTOK. Ix July we prepared to return to England — all in great glee. Mr. Higgins, Reginald,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pagina’s
...grove«, most dearly loves : Welcome, pure thoughts, Ti«* guest«, these courts, my soul Sow the wingM K lu which I will adore sweet Virtue's face. Here dwell no hateful looks, no palace cares, N» broken... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pagina’s
...own : Fame, honour, beauty, state, train, blood, and birth, Are but the fading blossoms of the earth. Welcome, pure thoughts ; welcome, ye silent groves...these courts, my soul most dearly loves : Now the winged people of the sky shall sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring : A prayer-book now... | |
 | 1847 - 334 pagina’s
...we again breathe the fresh air — again feel ourselves in the country — " Welcome pure thought ! welcome ye silent groves ! These guests, these courts, my soul most dearly loves ! Now the winged people of the sky shall sing My cheerful anthems." The smoke, noise, bubble, bubble, toil and... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pagina’s
...in all superlatives ; Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Than ever fortune would have made them mine, And hold one minute of this holy leisure,...these courts, my soul most dearly loves : Now the winged people of the sky shall sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome Spring ; A prayer-book now... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pagina’s
...Are but the fading blossoms of the earth. Welcome, pure thoughts, welcome, ye silent groves, The«« eky shall siny My cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring : A prayer-book now shall be my looking-glass,... | |
 | William Harrison Safford - 1850 - 248 pagina’s
...attentions. Amidst this peaceful solitude, how fully could he adopt the sentiment of the rural poet:— "Welcome, pure thoughts! welcome, ye silent groves!...These guests, these courts, my soul most dearly loves; How the wing'd people of the sky shall sing, My cheerful anthem to the gladsome spring. Here dwell... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pagina’s
...honour, beauty, state, train, blood, and birth, Are but the fading blossoms of the earth. • » • » Yet could they not be clean ; their stain Is dyed in such a purple grain, There is not such anoth lores : Now the wing'd people of the sky shall sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring : A... | |
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In the loose rhymes of every poetaster — Could I be more than any man that lives, Great, fair, rich, wise, all in superlatives; Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Than ever fortune would have made them mine ; And hold one minute of this holy... 
