 Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage and the human breast Torments alike with raging fires; With bright, but oft destructive, gleam, Alike o'er all his lightnings fly ; Thy lambent glories only beam Around the fav'rites of the sky.  La Belle Assemblée - Página 391812Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 páginas
...Gentleman's Magazine of this year. FRIENDSHIP, AN ODE.* " Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. " While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 páginas
...consists in health—that of the mind, in knowledge. P 2 FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied ; While Love, unknown among the bless'd, Parent of thousand wild desires, The... | |
 | 1837 - 612 páginas
...— which stands in the version given by Boswell— ' Friendship ! peculiar gift of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied' — meaning, as the sequel exemplifies, that the sensual passion was common... | |
 | Reclaimed family - 1838 - 238 páginas
...feeling it. As the poet beautifully expresses it. — " Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride. To men and angels only given. To all the other world denied. Nor shall thine an I ours cease to flow When souls to blissful climes remove... | |
 | William Watson Waldron - 1841 - 124 páginas
...triumph meets him at death's sombre urn. TO A FRIEND.* " Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied." Oh ! let me wake my lyre For thee, my honored friend, The strains my muse... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 páginas
...Gentleman's Magazine of this year. FRIENDSHIP, AN ODE.* " Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given. To all the lower world denied. " While love, unknown among the blest, 1'arent of thousand wild desires, The... | |
 | 1849 - 350 páginas
...again, we shall part no more." FRIENDSHIP. BY 8. JOHNSON. FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. While Love, unknown among the blessed, Parent of thousand wild desires, The... | |
 | N. L. Ferguson - 1852 - 284 páginas
...love ! ©•-- •• @ 224 FRIENDSHIP. FRIENDSHIP. FRIENDSHIP ! peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage... | |
 | George Daniel - 1852 - 328 páginas
...gave " ardour to virtue and constancy to truth ! " " Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied." Behold the dying sage! See how the mingled tears of Burke and Eeynolds tell... | |
 | George Daniel - 1852 - 334 páginas
...who gave " ardour to virtue and constancy to truth!" " Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied." Behold the dying sage! See how the mingled tears of Burke and Reynolds tell... | |
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