To join the worldly crowd ; perchance to talk, To think, to act as they: then all these thoughts, That lift th' expanded heart above this spot To heavenly musing, these shall pass away, (Even as this goodly prospect from my view,) Hidden by near and earthy-rooted... Lewesdon Hill: With Other Poems - Page 39by William Crowe - 1827 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Crowe - 1788 - 38 pages
...view) Hidden by near and earthy-rooted cares. So pafleth human life; our better mind Is as a funday*s garment, then put on .• * •' • When "we have nought to do ; but at our work We wear a worfe for thrift. Of this enough : To-morrow for feverer thought ; but nbw To breakfaft, and keep feftival... | |
| William Crowe - Landscapes - 1788 - 252 pages
...view) Hidden by near and earthy-rooted cares. So pafleth human life ; our better mind Is as a funday's garment, then put on When we have nought to do ; but at our work We wear aVworfe for thrift. Of this enough : To-morrow for feverer thought ; but now To breakfaft, and keep... | |
| James Lackington - Booksellers and bookselling - 1791 - 366 pages
...from my view) Hidden by near and earthly-rooted cares : So paflsth human life ; our better mind Is us a Sunday's garment, then put on When we have nought to do ; but at our work We wear a worfe for thrift. CROWE'S Lewefden Hill, 'a Poem. The above reception was the more pleafing, as I have... | |
| Edward Copleston - Currency question - 1819 - 114 pages
...••• ! .• . . . ;..•..:}.•. Our better mind , I :* Jl , •' , t • | . • •.' • Is but a Sunday's garment, then put on When we have nought...to do, but at our work We wear a worse for thrift, *• • • •, , t .' . , . ' • still more natural is it, in matters which belong father to the... | |
| Edward Copleston (bp. of Llandaff.) - 1819 - 112 pages
...excited by considerations of interest or duty. If it be true even in morals that Our better mind Is but a Sunday's garment, then put on When we have nought...to do, but at our work We wear a worse for thrift, still more natural is it, in matters which belong rather to the province of intellect than of moral... | |
| Robert Southey - Children's stories - 1834 - 394 pages
...blessing was upon him, and he prized it beyond all that the world could have bestowed. Crowe says of us, Our better mind Is as a Sunday's garment, then put...to do ; but at our work We wear a worse for thrift ! It was not so with him : his better mind was not as a garment to be put on and off at pleasure ;... | |
| Robert Southey - Musical fiction - 1836 - 472 pages
...was upon him, and he prized it beyond all that the world could have bestowed. Crowe says of as — " Our better mind Is as a Sunday's garment, then put on When we have naught to do ; but at our work We wear a worse for thrift !" It was not so with him ; his better mind... | |
| 1845 - 404 pages
...generally are, cannot but be of rare occurrence. It has been truly said, that ' Our better mind Is like a Sunday's garment, then put on When we have nought...do, — but at our work We wear a worse for thrift.' Our common temper, therefore, which is but too generally cold, and selfish, and worldly, is altogether... | |
| Thomas Arnold - Anglican Communion - 1845 - 540 pages
...generally are, cannot but be of rare occurrence. It has been truly said, that " Our better mind, Is like a Sunday's garment, then put on When we have nought to do, — but at our work We wear a worso for thrift." Our common temper, therefore, which is but too generally cold, and selfish, and... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1846 - 588 pages
...generally areĢ cannot but be of rare occurrence. It has been truly said, that " Our better mind, Is like a Sunday's garment, then put on When we have nought...do, — but at our work We wear a worse for thrift." Our common temper, therefore, which is but too generally cold, and selfish, and worldly, is altogether... | |
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