 | 1846 - 436 sidor
...Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please ; O, let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence ! VIRTUE. — Old English Poetry. THE sturdy rock, for all his strength, By raging seas is rent in... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Israel Alger (Jun.) - 1846 - 180 sidor
...life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all can please ; Oh ! let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. 2. Large bounties to bestow, we wish in vain : But all may shun the guilt of giving pain. To bless... | |
 | Hannah More - 1847 - 414 sidor
...life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; O let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness...in vain. Yet all may shun the guilt of giving pain : To bless mankind with tides of flowing wealth, With rank to grace them, or to crown with health.... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1847 - 500 sidor
...serve, yet all may please : O ! let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness may give great offence. To spread large bounties though we...in vain, Yet all may shun the guilt of giving pain : To bless mankind with tides of flowing wealth, With rank to grace them, or to crown with health,... | |
 | 1744 - 726 sidor
...life's best joys consist In peace and ease, And though bat few can serve, yet all may please, 0 let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. A GOOD RULE. •Tis well to walk with a cheerful heart Wherever our fortunes call, With a friendly... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 316 sidor
...life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And tho' but few can serve, yet all may please, O let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence." The whole poem, with the exception of some objections to preachers of benevolence like Sterne, (who... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1848 - 432 sidor
...serve, yet all may please . O ! let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness may give great offence. To spread large bounties though we...in vain, Yet all may shun the guilt of giving pain : To bless mankind with tides of flawing wealth, With rank to grace them, or to crown with health,... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 sidor
...fSince life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And [though but few can serve, yet all may please, 0 let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small...in vain, Yet all may shun the guilt of giving pain. 3m ^ .; .,, .*.. It glads the eye it warms the soul To gaze upon the rugged knoll, [Where tangled brushwood... | |
 | 1897 - 666 sidor
...beet joys consist in peace and ease; And though but few can serve, yet all may please ; О let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness...great offence. To spread large bounties, though we Irish in vain, Yet all may shun [not tiare] the guilt of giving puin : To blcse mankind with tides... | |
 | 1876 - 602 sidor
...JU. " Since trifles make the sum of greater things, And half our misery from folly springs, Oh, may the ungentle spirit learn from hence A small unkindness is a great offence." TWK " Under how hard a fate are women born ! Praised to our ruin, or condemned to scom. If we want... | |
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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; O let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness... 
