 | James Anderson - 1792 - 394 pages
...: Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Than ever fortune would have made them miner And held one minute of this holy leisure Beyond the riches...this empty pleasure. Welcome pure thoughts ! welcome ya silent groves ! These guests, these courts, my soul most dearly loves- s Now the wing'd peopk of... | |
 | James Anderson - 1792 - 386 pages
...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 leisure...this empty pleasure. Welcome pure thoughts! welcome ya silent groves! These guests, these courts, my soul most dearly loves: Now the wing'd people of the... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 236 pages
...all in superlatives ; Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Than ever fortune would have mad*: them mine, And hold one minute of this holy leisure...soul most dearly loves : Now the wing'd people of th« sky shall sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring: A prayer-book now shall be my looking-glass,... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pages
...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 leisure...; These guests, these courts, my soul most dearly lovei. Now the winged people of the sky shall sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring : A prayer-book... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - 516 pages
...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 leisure,..., , My cheerful anthems to the gladsome Spring : A Pray'r-book now, shall be my looking-glass, In which I will adore sweet Virtue's face. Here dwell no... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1824 - 518 pages
...Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Than ever Fortune would have made them mine ; And hold me minute of this holy leisure, Beyond the riches of...groves, These guests, these courts my soul most dearly loves.Now the wing'd people of the sky shall sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome Spring : A Pray'r-book... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1824 - 512 pages
...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 leisure,...empty pleasure. Welcome, pure thoughts, Welcome ye gilent graves, These guests, these courts my soul most dearly loves : Noiv the wing'd people of the... | |
 | Minstrel - 1824 - 246 pages
...minute of this holy leisure 13eyond the riches of this empty pleasure. Welcome pure thoughts, welcomeye silent groves, These guests, these courts, my soul...loves : Now the wing'd people of the sky shall sing My chcarful anthems to the gladsome spring : A prayer-hook now shall be my looking-glass, In which I will... | |
 | 1826 - 488 pages
...flovv'rets casts Bedropped with golden spangles. PENNIE'* Royal Minstrel. naturalist's For MAY 1826. Welcome, pure thoughts, welcome ye silent groves,...guests, 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... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...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 leisure...loves. Now the wing'd people of the sky shall sing JVly cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring: A prayer-book, now, shall be my looking-glass, In which... | |
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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... 
