 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 - Page 391812Full view - About this book
 | Robert Tyas - Flower language - 1869 - 298 pages
...bidding with success. IVY (Hedera helix).—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." FRIENDSHIP is represented by a device in which Ivy is growing round a fallen... | |
 | Flower language - 1873 - 182 pages
...with the motto, " Nothing can detach me from it :" — Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. Miss Twamley thus characterizes it : — The Ivy, that staunchest and firmest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...the happiness she does not find. ODES. FRIENDSHIP. PBIENDSHIP ! 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...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 deny'd. While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage... | |
 | English literature - 1879 - 512 pages
...finely described. I remember the opening lines : — ' Friendship, peculiar bo jn of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.' " " But, then, it is very hard to find a true friend," Lady Moore quietly... | |
 | Aristos Philadelphus - Metaphysics - 1880 - 272 pages
...sincerity its rule, and mutual improvement its result. Friendship, peculiars boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride ; To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. Directress of the brave and just, Oh guide us on life's darksome way ! And... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...Songs of Many Reasons. Our Classmate, *'. WC, 1864. Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble ds, belongs the merchant! — o'er * goods sails with him as the lower world denied, ji. SAM'L JOHNSON — Friendship. An Ode. Come back! ye friendships long departed!... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - American literature - 1883 - 302 pages
...holy tie — Is made more sacred by adversity. DRYDEK. Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. SAMUEL JOHMSON. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...a moral, or adorn a tale Samuel Johnson, 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. Samuel Johns jn. PASTORAL BALLAD. YK shepherds so cheerful and gay, Whose flocks... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...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... | |
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