 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...That thou hast been to me all tenderness, And friend to more than human friendship ju•t. Oh ! by that retrospect of happiness, And by the hopes of...trust, God shall assuage thy pangs- -when I am laid in dull ! Go, Henry, go not back when I depart ; The scene thy bursting tears too deep will move, Where... | |
 | William Shenstone, Thomas Park - 1808 - 342 pages
...please the [smell. For preservation ? Every sphere Shall bid fair Pleasure's rightful claim appear; And sure there seem, of human kind, Some born to shun the solemn strife; Some for amnsive tasks design'd, To sooth the certain ills of life; Grace its lone vales with many a budding... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 pages
...than human friendship just." The three lines that follow these, have very little warmth : " Oh ! by that retrospect of happiness, *' And by the hopes...shall assuage thy pangs — when I am laid in dust !" Such words as retrospect belong rather to philosophy than to feeling : and the formal and metaphysically... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Massacre, 1778 - 1809 - 148 pages
...That thou hast been to me all tenderness, ' And friend to more than human friendship just. 'Oh! by that retrospect of happiness, ' And by the hopes of...shall assuage thy pangs — when I am laid in dust! xxx. ' Go, Henry, go not back, when I depart, * The scene thy bursting tears too deep will move, '... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...sustenance alone? For use? For preservation ? Every sphere Shall bid fair pleasure's rightful claim appear. And sure there seem, of human kind, Some born to shun the solemn strife ; Some for amusive tasks design'd, To sooth the certain ills of life ; Grace its lone vales with many a budding rose, New founts... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1810 - 272 pages
...That thou hast been to me all tenderness, ' And friend to more than human friendship just. * Oh ! by that retrospect of happiness, ' And by the hopes of...shall assuage thy pangs — when I am laid in dust! ' Go, Henry, go not back, when I depart, ' The scene thy bursting tears too deep will move, ' Where... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 266 pages
...That thou hast been to me all tenderness, ' And friend to more than human friendship just. ' Oh ! by that retrospect of happiness, ' And by the hopes of an immortal trust, 'God shall assuage thy pan gs-—\v hen I am 1 aid in dun t! 1 XXX. ' Go, Henry, go not back, when I depart, ' The scene thy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...alone ? For u^e ' For preservation Î Every sphere Shall bid fair Pleasure's rightful claim appear. And sure there seem, of human kind. Some born to shun the solemn strife; Some for amusivc tasks design'd, To soothe the certain ills of life; Grace its lone vales with many a budding... | |
 | Charles Marshall - Fish ponds - 1813 - 464 pages
...alone ? for use ? For preservation ? Every sphere Shall bid fair Pleasure's rightful claim appear, And sure there seem of human kind, Some born to shun the solemn strife ; Some for amusive tasks design'd. To soothe the certain ills of life ; Grace its lone vales with many a budding rose, New founts... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...exctss, That thou hast been to me all tenderness, And friend to more than human friendship just. Oh ! by that retrospect of happiness, And by the hopes of an immortal trust, God shall assuage thy pangs—when I am laid in dust! Go, Henry, go not back when I depart ; The scene thy bursting tears... | |
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Clasp me a little longer, on the brink Of fate ! while I can feel thy dear caress ; And, when this heart hath ceased to beat — oh! think, And let it mitigate thy woe's excess, That thou hast been to me all tenderness, And friend to more than human friendship... 
