 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 542 pages
...wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, What nothing earthly givts, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...prize : n better would you fix? Then give humility a coach and »ix, .Tastier a coiiqu'ror's «word, or truth a gown, Or public spirit its great cure, a crown. Weak, fiMilUli uuin ! will Heaven reward us there With the same tra*h mad mortals wish fur here? The boy... | |
 | Young lady - Psychology - 1809 - 204 pages
...important question — Whether the pleasures of the senses are superior to those of the soul ? tVhat nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy. To determine this point, let us imagine them divided from each other, and thus carried to the summit... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...to give ; Immense the pow'r, immense were the demand; Say, at what |>art of nature will they stand? ow the grassy cirque han cover'd o'er With boist'rous revel-rout and wild upr heart-fell joy, Is virtue's prize : a better would you fix ? Then give humility a coach and six, Justice... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...all disappoint you. This is the experience of the whole world. And is it not your experience also? " What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart- felt joy, Is Virtue's prize." Reflect upon the workings of your own hearts, in the different... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...bless the day, And back to Schiraz' walls he bent his way. VIRTUE ALONE AFFORDS TRUE HAPPINESS. POPE. WHAT nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's...would you fix ? Then give Humility a coach and six ; Justice a couq'ror's sword, or Truth a gown, Or Public Spirit its great cure—a crown. Weak, foolish... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...with temperance alone; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own. POPE. The true Reward of Virtue. What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's...would you fix, Then give humility a coach and six, Justice a conqueror's sword, or truth a gown, Or public spirit its great cure, a crown. Weak, foolish... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...faith and hope the world will disagree ; But all mankind's concern is charity. The Prize of Virtue. What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's...sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize. Sense and Modesty connected. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks ; It still looks home, and... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...disappoint you. This is the experience of the whole world. And is it not your experience iilso ; " What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's...calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is Virtue's pi ize." Reflect upon the workings of your own hearts, in the different periods anil circumstances... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1811 - 440 pages
...Often, in short, concludes she, did she bring to my mind, in her most advanced age, these lines of Pope, What nothing' earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's...sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize. «,u In 1768, continues Reiske, I published my proposals for the edition of Demosthenes, in the full... | |
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix? 
