Virtue, for ever frail, as fair, below, Her tender nature suffers in the crowd, Nor touches on the world, without a stain : The world's infectious ; few bring back at eve, Immaculate, the manners of the morn. Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality - עמוד 68מאת Edward Young - 1816 - 268 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| Caroline M. Mersereau - 1860 - 370 דפים
...may bring, There's no pleasure worth comparing With a golden wedding-ring. Gerald Massey. 2. O. — The world's infectious ; few bring back at eve, Immaculate...resolved, Is shaken ; we renounced, returns again. Young. L, — There is no spot, or high or low, Which darkness visits not at times. No shelter from... | |
| John Milton - 1860 - 574 דפים
...than inspires. Virtue, for ever frail as fair below, Her Under n.cture Millers in the crowd, •aches on the world without a stain. The world's infectious; few bring back at eve, Inmiaculiitc, the manners of the, rnorn. iiiing we thought, is liloltcd; we resolved, It shaken; we... | |
| George Graham (Novelist.) - 1860 - 350 דפים
... O vx f .CABSTONE RECTORY. A STORY. GEORGE GRAHAM. "The world *e infectious ; few bring back at eve, Immaculate, the manners of the morn." — YOUNG. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON : HUEST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, SUCCESSOHS TO HENRY... | |
| 1861 - 356 דפים
...destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize. POPE. Virtue, forever frail, as fair, below, Her tender nature suffers in...the crowd, Nor touches on the world without a stain. YOUNG. Those restless cares, those busy, bustling days, Those gay-spent, festive nights, those veering... | |
| 1864 - 322 דפים
...delicate as well as true." — She read, with beautiful intonation, the following passage: — ' " Virtue, for ever frail as fair below, Her tender nature suffers...resolved, Is shaken ; we renounced, returns again." " This seems to me," continued Agatha, " so worthy of the exquisite pxirity of Christ's religion, that... | |
| 1866 - 426 דפים
...Night is the good man's friend, and guardian too ; It no less rescues virtue, than inspires. Virtue, for ever frail, as fair, below, Her tender nature...crowd, Nor touches on the world, without a stain : The world 's infectious ; few bring back at eve, Immaculate, the manners of the morn. Something we thought,... | |
| Methodist preachers - 1866 - 332 דפים
...natural on the occasion ; and will not, I presume, he unacceptable to some readers : — " Virtue, for ever frail, as fair, below, Her tender nature...the crowd, Nor touches on the world without a stain. We see, we hear, with peril ; safety dwells Remote from multitude ; the world 'sa school Of wrong,... | |
| William Rounseville Alger - 1867 - 420 דפים
...is reason's reign, And virtue's too ; its tutelary shades Are man's asylum from the tainted throng. The world's infectious ; few bring back at eve, Immaculate,...resolved, Is shaken ; we renounced, returns again. Nor is it strange : light, motion, concourse, noise, All scatter us abroad ; thought, outward bound,... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1868 - 804 דפים
...a state in which there is every thing to mislead his opinions and endanger his virtue. The world is & # & & #l# $ $~" % Ah! how many thoughts become rooted in the mind ; how many habits are given to the affections ; how... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 דפים
...the giddy circle sick and tired, It pants for peace, and drops into despair. YOUNI: : Night Thoughts. The world's infectious : few bring back at eve Immaculate...resolved, Is shaken ; we renounced, returns again. YOUNG : Night Thoughts. What is this world ! Thy school, O misery ! Our only lesson is to learn to... | |
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