 | James Thomson - 1750 - 270 Seiten
...ffies ; and all My mounting powers expand to deeds like thefe. Who, who would live, my Narva, juft to breathe This idle air, and indolently run, Day after day, the ftill-returnirig round Of life's mean offices, and fickly joys ? Bat, in the fervice of mankind, to... | |
 | James Thomson - 1763 - 422 Seiten
...oppreflion flies; and all My mounting powers expand to deeds like thefc. Who, who would live, my Narva, juft to breathe This idle air, and indolently run, Day after day, the ftill-returning round Of life's mean offices, and fickly joys ? But, in the fervice of mankind, to... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 476 Seiten
...robbery to man ! 5.69- ТЬе true End of Life. THOMSON. ЛДГНО, who would live, my Narva, juft to breathe This idle air, and indolently run, Day after day, the dill returning round Of life's mean offices, and fickly joys ? But in the .fervice of mankind to be... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 322 Seiten
...into love. But now the soft oppression flies ; and all My mounting powers expand to deeds like these. Who, who would live, my Narva, just to breathe This idle air, and indolently run, Day after day, the still-returning round Of life's mean offices, and sickly joys ; But, in the service of mankind, to... | |
 | Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803 - 342 Seiten
...Petersburg together, upon my tour towards Britain. " Who, who would live, my Narva, just to breath " This idle air, and indolently run, " Day after day,...returning round " Of life's mean offices, and sickly joys ? " But in the service of mankind to be " A guardian God below — still to employ " The mind's brave... | |
 | 1806 - 408 Seiten
...of perfidious robbery to Man? true EXD (THOMSON.) WHO, who would live, my Narva, just to breathe The idle air, and indolently run, Day after day, the still returning round Ot life's mean offices, and sickly joys ? But in the service of mankind to be A guardian God below... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...once, of sacrilege to Heaven, And of perfidious robbery to man ! §69. The true End of Life. THOMSON. WHO, who would live, my Narva, just to breathe This...returning round Of life's mean offices and sickly joys r But in the service of mankind to be A guardian god below ; still to employ The mind's brave ardor... | |
 | 1818 - 278 Seiten
...of Warsaw, will probably be not less interested with the work now offered to the reader. AS CHAP. I. "Just to breathe This idle air, and indolently run...returning round Of life's mean offices and sickly joys." "O! rather, rather Had I ne'er seen the vital light of heav'n Than like the vulgar live, and like them... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 558 Seiten
...pangs, to die, And pass away like those forgotten things That soon become as they had never been ; Who, who would live, My Narva, just to breathe This...returning round Of life's mean offices and sickly joys ? But in the service of mankind, to be A guardian god below : still to employ The mind's brave ardour... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 528 Seiten
...to die, And pass away like those forgotten things That soon become as they had never been ; . . '• Who, who would live, My Narva, just to breathe This...returning round Of life's mean offices and sickly joys ? But in the service of mankind, to be A guardian god below : still to employ The mind's brave ardour... | |
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Narva, just to breathe This idle air, and indolently run, Day after day, the still returning round Of life's mean offices and sickly joys... 
