| American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...Nature hath assign'd : Though much I want that most would have. Yet still my mind forbids to crave. Content I live, this is my stay , I seek no more than...suffice : I press to bear no haughty sway ; Look ; what 1 lack, my mind supplies. Lo ! thus I triumph like a king, Content with that my mind doth bring. I... | |
| 1838 - 876 pages
...nature hath assigned ; Tho" much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. " Content I live, this is my stay ; I seek no more than may suffice : I press to hear no haughty sway : Look, what I lack, my mind supplies. Lo! thus I triumph like a king, Content... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - England - 1841 - 300 pages
...doth my mind forbid me crave. Such perfect joye therein I find, As farre exceeds all earthly blisse, " Content I live ; this is my stay, I seek no more than may suffice, I presse to bear no haughty sway, Looke what I lacke my mind supplies. Lo ! thus I triumph like a king,... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 732 pages
...affords or growes by kind. * Though much I want that most men have, Yet doth my mind forbid me crave. " Content I live ; this is my stay, I seek no more than may suffice, 1 presse to bear no haughty sway, Looke what I lacke my mind supplies. Lo ! thus I triumph like a king,... | |
| William Goodman - Great Britain - 1843 - 342 pages
...nature hath assignde : Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my minde forbids to crave. Content I live, this is my stay ; I seek no more than may suffice, I presse to beare no haughtie sway ; Look, what I lacke my minde supplies : Loe ! thus I triumph like... | |
| Theology - 1851 - 620 pages
...assign'd ! Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. Content to live, this is my stay ; I seek no more than may suffice...supplies : Lo ! thus I triumph, like a king, Content with what my mind doth bring. 1 see how plenty surfeits oft. And hasty climbers soonest fall ; I see that... | |
| Theodore Dwight - 1845 - 846 pages
...affords, or growes by kind : * Though much I want that most men have, Yet doth my minde forbid me crave. Content I live, this is my stay — I seek no more...than may suffice, I press to bear no haughty sway, Lookc what I lacke my mind supplies: Loe, thus I triumph like a king, Content with that my mind doth... | |
| William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 340 pages
...nature hath assignde : Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my minde forbids to crave. Content I live, this is my stay ; I seek no more than may suffice, I presse to beare no haughtie sway ; Look, what I lackc my minde supplies : Loe ! thus I triumph like... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...nature hath assigned ; Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. Content I live, this is my stay ; I seek no more than...like a king, Content with that my mind doth bring. 124 PEACE OF MIND. I see how plenty surfeits oft, And hasty climbers soonest fall ; I see that such... | |
| John Lauris Blake - History - 1846 - 292 pages
...or nature has assigned — Though much I want that most would have, Still my mind forbids to crave. Content I live, this is my stay; I seek no more than...supplies. Lo! thus I triumph like a king, Content with what my mind doth bring. Some have too much, yet still they crave; I little have, yet seek no more... | |
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