 This is a joye — this is true pleasure, If we best things make our treasure, And enjoy them at full leisure, Evermore in richest measure. God is only excellent, Let up to Him our love be sent ; Whose desires are set and bent On ought else — shall...  Home Sketches and Foreign Recollections - Page 120by Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Sir John Harington, Henry Harington - 1804 - 506 pages
...Let up to him our love be sent, Whose desires are set or bent On ought else, shall much repent. HI. Theirs is a most wretched case, • Who themselves...disgrace, That they their affections place Upon things nam'd vile and base. IV. Let us love of heaven receave, These are joyes our harts will heave Higher... | |
 | Sir John Harington - 1804 - 438 pages
...Frederic Elector Palatine, a virtuous but ill-fated union. See Bromley's original royal letters. , . V. Earthly things do fade, decay, Constant to us not one day ; Suddenly they pass away, And we can not make them stay. VI. All the vast world doth conteyne, To content mans heart, are vayne, That... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 428 pages
...measure. God is only excellent! Let up to him our love be sent, Whose desires are set or bent On ought else, shall much repent. Theirs is a most wretched...disgrace, That they their affections place Upon things nam'd vile and base. Earthly things do fade, decay. Constant to us not 6ne day , Suddenly they pass... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 476 pages
...most wretched case, Who themselves so far disgrace, That they their affections place Upon things nam'd vile and base. Earthly things do fade, decay, Constant...to us not one day . Suddenly they pass away, And we can not make them stay. All the vast world doth conteyne To content man's heart, are vayne, That still... | |
 | Elizabeth Benger - 1825 - 400 pages
...measure. God is only excellent, Let up to him our love be sent ; Whose desires are set and bent On ought else, — shall much repent. Theirs is a most wretched...named vile and base. Earthly things do fade, decay, Contentations not one day ; Suddenly they pass away, And man cannot make them stay. All the vast world... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1825 - 472 pages
...These are joys our hearts will heave Higher than we can conceive, And shall us not fail nor leave. 5. Earthly things do fade, decay, Constant to us not one day ; Suddenly they pass away, And we can not make them stay. 6. All the vast world doth contain, To content man's heart, are vain. That... | |
 | 1856 - 606 pages
...richest measure. " God is only excellent ; Let up to him our love be sent ; Whose desires are set and bent On aught else, shall much repent. " Theirs is...affections place Upon things named vile and base. " Let as love of heaven receive ; These are joys onr hearts will heave Higher than we can conceive,... | |
 | 1881 - 792 pages
...These are joys our hearts will heave Higher than we can conceive, And shall us not faint nor leave. Earthly things do fade, decay, Constant to us not...Suddenly they pass away, And we cannot make them stay. To me grace, O, Father send, On Thee wholly to depend, That all may to Thy glory tend, So let me live,... | |
 | 1855 - 526 pages
...measure. God is only excellent, Let up to him our love be sent ; Whose desires are set and bent On ought else— shall much repent. Theirs is a most wretched...named vile and base. Earthly things do fade, decay, Contentatious not one day; Suddenly they pass away, And man cannot make them stay. All the vast world... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1856 - 602 pages
...repeuL 458 THE ROYAL LADIES OF ENGLAND. 459 " Theirs is a most wretched case Who themselves so fur disgrace, That they their affections place Upon things named vile and base. " Let us love of heaven receive ; These are joys our hearts will heave Higher than we can conceive,... | |
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