 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 428 pages
...supplicating voice, But leave to Heav'n the measure and the choice. /- 3 Safe in his pow'r, whose eyes disdern afar The secret ambush of a specious pray'r, Implore...strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign 'd ; For love, which scarce collective... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...fate ? Shall no dislike alarm, no wishes rise, No cries attempt the mercy of the skies ? Enthusiast1, cease ; petitions yet remain, Which Heav'n may hear,...for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill, For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...fate? Shall no dislike alarm, no wishes rise, No cries attempt the mercy of the skies? Enthusiast*, cease ; petitions yet remain, Which Heav'n may hear,...for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill, For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...pow-r whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious prayer ; Implore his aid, in his decision rest, Secure, whate-er he gives, he gives the best....for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign-d; For Lotf, which scarce collective man can fill; For Patience, sov-rcign o'er transmuted ill;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...supplicating voice, But leave to heaven the measure and the choice. Safe in his pow'r, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious pray'r. Implore...presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, four forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 328 pages
...supplicating voice, But leave to Heav'n the measure and the choice, Safe in his pow'r, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious pray'r ; Implore...patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal oT retreat: These goods for man... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 350 pages
...afar The secret ambush of a specious pray'r; Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure, what'er he gives, he gives the best. Yet, when the sense of...for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted... | |
 | John Aikin - Books and reading - 1806 - 346 pages
...modern writer was superior to that of the ancient. Nobler lines than the following were never composed : Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong...for a healthful mind, Obedient passions and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill, For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...Safe in His hand, whose eye discerns afar jEtot! " ^ ne secret ambush of a specious pray'r ; 40. " Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, " Secure whate'er...a healthful mind, " Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; " For love, which scarce collective man can fill; " For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...supplicating voice, But leave to Heav'n the measure and the choice. Safe in his pow'r, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious pray'r ; Implore...for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted... | |
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Implore his aid, in his decisions rest. Secure whate'er he gives, he gives the best Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned... 
