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" When Heaven would kindly set us free, And earth's enchantment end ; It takes the most effectual means, And robs us of a friend. "
Forty years in the world; or, Sketches and tales of a soldier's life, by the ... - Seite 137
von Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825
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A True Estimate of Human Life: In which the Passions are Considered in a New ...

Edward Young - 1802 - 146 Seiten
...by the decease of his friend Richardson, the famous novelist. When heaven would kindly set us free, And Earth's enchantment end, It takes the most effectual means, And robs us of a friend ! The thought is just, and is made the more impressive by being expressed with peculiar...
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Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Late Rev. Cornelius Winter

1808 - 512 Seiten
...been without fatigue. But I have labored with pleasure, •" When heaven would set our spirits free, And earth's enchantment end, It takes the most effectual means, And robs us of a friend." Youxc, and rejoice in the enterprise, from a persuasion that what I have written from...
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 Seiten
...former part of the poem. Of Richardson's death he says — — When Heaven would kindly set us free, And earth's enchantment end ; It takes the most effectual means, And robs us of a friend. To " Resignation" was prefixed an Apology for its appearance : to which more credit...
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Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 Seiten
...be weigh'd ; when weigh'd aright, It richly pays your pain : When Heaven would kindly set us free. And Earth's enchantment end ; It takes the most effectual means, And robs us of a friend. But such a friend ! and sigh no more ? 'T is prudent ; but severe : Heaven aid my weakness,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Band 11

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 Seiten
...printing the former part of the poem. Of Richardson's death he says When heaven would kindly set us free, And earth's enchantment end ; It takes the most effectual means, And robs us of a friend. To Resignation was prefixed an apology for its appearance : to which more credit is...
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Hymns, Partly Collected and Partly Original: Designed as a Supplement to Dr ...

William Bengo Collyer - 1812 - 980 Seiten
...ties, And every sorrow cuts a string, And urges us to rise. 4 When heaven would kindly set us free. And earth's enchantment end, It takes the most effectual means, And robs us of a friend ; 5 Resign — and all the load of life That moment you remove; It's heavy tax, ten...
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Night thoughts, and A paraphrase on part of the book of Job. With the life ...

Edward Young - 1812 - 814 Seiten
...printing the former part of the poem. Of Richardson's death he says When Heaven would kindly set us free, And earth's enchantment end ; It takes the most effectual means, And robs us of a friend. " To ' Resignation' was prefixed an Apology for its appearance: to which more credit...
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing ..., Band 4

John Nichols - 1812 - 758 Seiten
...consequence of the sudden death of Richardson. Of Death he says, " When Heaven would kindly set us free, And Earth's enchantment end, It takes the most effectual means, And robs us of a Friend." The same plaintive writer addressed his " Conjectures on Original Composition" to...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Band 6

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 Seiten
...occasion for comfort, in consequence of his sudden death : " When Heaven would kindly set us free, And earth's enchantment end, It takes the most effectual means, And robs us of a friend." To Richardson this poet had addressed his ' Conjectures on original Composition ;...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Band 3

Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 Seiten
...the former part of the poem. Of Richardson's death he says—- When heaven would kindly set us free, And earth's enchantment end ; It takes the most effectual means, And robs us of a friend. To Resignation was prefixed an apology for its appearance : to which more credit is...
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