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" Why should not the same thing be said of religion ? Trust me, I feel it in the same way — an energy, an inspiration, which I would not lose for all the blessings of sense, or enjoyments of the world ; yet so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures... "
The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c - Page 280
1825
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from Goo urmur dirges round so lifts me above the world. Man, I know, is but a worm, yet methiuks I am then allied to God 1* It...
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The Story of La Roche

Henry Mackenzie - 1852 - 38 pages
...enjoyments of the world ; yet, so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from...my share — it confers a dignity on my affliction, — so lifts me above the world. Man, I know, is but a worm — yet, methinks, I am then allied to...
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Little Classics, Volume 3

Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1874 - 212 pages
...enjoyments of the world ; yet, so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from...share, — it confers a dignity on my affliction, so lifts me above the world. Man, I know, is but a worm; yet, methinks, I am then allied to God ! "...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...enjoyments of the world ; yet so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from...had my share, it confers a dignity on my affliction, so lifts me above the world ! Man, I know, is but a worm, yet, methinks, I am then allied to God !"...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...enjoyments of the world ; yet so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it so lifts me above the world t Man, I know, is but a worm, yet, methinks, I am then allied to God !...
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopędia of Universal Authorship ...

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 462 pages
...pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from God add* the blessing of sentiment to that of sensation in every good thing I poeseae; and when calamities overtake me — and I have had my share — it confers a dignity on my...
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An Anthology of the Short Story in 18th and 19th Century America, Volume 2

Edward W. R. Pitcher - American fiction - 2000 - 422 pages
...enjoyments of the world; yet, so far from lessening my relish of the pleasure of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from...good thing I possess; and when calamities overtake me-and I have had my share-it confers a dignity on my affliction-so lifts me above the world. Man,...
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The Man of Feeling

Henry Mackenzie - Fiction - 2005 - 232 pages
...enjoyments of the world; yet so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from...good thing I possess; and when calamities overtake me—and I have had my share—it confers a dignity on my affliction, so lifts me above the world!—Man,...
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