| Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea - Death - 1709 - 26 pages
...we muft remain, Hereafter all our hopes arc vain To make our Peace with Heaven, or to return-again The Heathen, who no better underftood, Than what, the Light of Nature taught, decided No future Miferies could be prepar'd i For the Sincere, the Merciful, the Good ; But if there... | |
| Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon - English poetry - 1717 - 580 pages
...muft remain, Hereafter all our Hopes are vain r [again. To make our Peace with Heav'n, or to return The Heathen, who no better underftood, Than what the Light of Nature taught, declar'd No future Miferies cou'd be prepared For the Sincere, the Merciful, the Good ; But if there... | |
| Seraph - Hymns, English - 1754 - 294 pages
...muft remain ; Hereafter all our hopes are vain, To make our peace with heav'n, or to return again. The heathen, who no better underftood Than what the light of nature taught, declar'd No future mifery cou'd be prepar'd For the fincere, the merciful, the good ; • But, if there... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 372 pages
...muft remain ; Hereafter all our hopes are vain, To make our peace with Heaven, or to return again. The heathen, who no better underftood Than what the light of nature taught, declar'd, No future mifery could be prepar'd For the fincere, the merciful, the good ; But, if there... | |
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