Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must... Marriage: A Novel ... - Página 54por Susan Ferrier - 1819Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1874 - 592 páginas
...and " see how a Christian can live." As George Herbert says : " Only the perfect soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives ; But when the whole world turns to coal, Then chiefly lives." VOL XLT. IN the reign of the first James there was an open space of ground north of what is now called... | |
| John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 páginas
...where sweets compacted lie ; | Thy music shows | ye have your closes ; | 1 2 And all must die. \ 13 Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives ; | But, though the whole world turn to coal, I 16 Then chiefly lives.] 16. Mori riches — Equiv. to the highest... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 páginas
...die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, Thy music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and...virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives ; But, though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. HERBERT. THE heart, unalter'd in its mood,... | |
| 1896 - 1224 páginas
...WM. HAZLITT — Lectures on the English Comic Writers. On Wit and Humour. 80 CHARACTER. CHARACTER. h! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. a. HEBBEBT — The Church. Vertue. 'Tis the... | |
| James Lindsay - 1897 - 646 páginas
...— " Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and...virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives." It will thus be seen how the cry of immortal... | |
| John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 páginas
...die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and...virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives ; But, though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.— WORDSWORTH. Earth has... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 páginas
...My music shows you have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives ; But when the whole world turns to coal, Then chiefly lives. [THOMAS CAREW. 1580—1639.] MEDIOCRITY IN LOVE REJECTED. GIVE me more love, or more disdain ; The... | |
| Elizabeth Lee - 1898 - 258 páginas
...die. Sweet spring, hill of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and...virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. Simpler in form, and altogether more natural,... | |
| Brontë Society - 1898 - 396 páginas
...My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only the sweet and virtuous soul Like seasoned timber never gives, But when the whole world turns to coal, Then chiefly lives. Fame, even the highest literary fame, like riches may take wiugs and disappear, but virtue will endure.... | |
| Martin Grove Brumbaugh - 1899 - 408 páginas
...die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and...virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives ; But, though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. LIX.— IN TIME'S SWING. LOCY LARCOM. Father... | |
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