| Extracts - 1828 - 786 頁
...Rousteaik Absurd presumption ! Thou who never knew'st A serious thought! shalt thou dream of joy ? No man e'er found a happy life by chance, Or yawned it into being with a wish, Or with the snout of grovelling appetite E'er smelt it out, and grubb'd it from the dirt. An art it... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 頁
...is planted to proAnd propagate the glories of the mind. [From Night Thought!.] NIGHT VIII. WISDOM. No man e'er found a happy life by chance ; Or yawned it into being witli a wish ; Or, with the snout of grovelling appetite, E'er smelt it out, and grubbed it from the... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1852 - 480 頁
...Playfere. ABSURD presumption ! Thou who never knew'st A serious thought, shall thou dare dream of joy ? No man e'er found a happy life by chance, Or yawned it into being with a wish, Or with the snout of grovelling appetite E'er smelt it out, and grubbed it from the dirt. An art it... | |
| David Dale Stewart - 1857 - 426 頁
...Gospel of Christ. 20 HIS PBEPABATIOH OHAPTEE II. HIS PBEPABATION FOB THE MINI3TBY. [1803—1806.] " No man e'er found a happy life by chance, Or yawned it into being with a sigh." SUCCESS in a religious course, as in any other, is, by God's ordinance, closely connected with... | |
| Hugh Rowley - 1872 - 282 頁
...against it," and you never know when it may not be necessary for you to look alive at any rate. "No one e'er found a happy life by chance, or yawned it into being with a wish ; " and it is our deliberate opinion that no man need ever suffer from ennui whose motto is ... Ennui... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1876 - 424 頁
...under shade Of canopy reposing, heaven is won." No man, says another poet — " No man e'er gained a happy life by chance, Or yawned it into being with a wish." It stands written in the Koran that, " Under the shadow of the crossing scimitars Paradise is prefigured... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1876 - 424 頁
...under shade Of canopy reposing, heaven is won. " No man, says another poet — " No man e'er gained a happy life by chance, Or yawned it into being with a wish." It stands written in the Koran that, " Under the shadow of the crossing scimitars Paradise is prefigured... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 頁
...is planted to proAnd propagate the glories of the mind. {From Night Tfiouyhtt.] xir.iir vin. WISDOM. No man e'er found a happy life by chance; Or yawned it into being with a wish ; Or, with the snout of grovelling appetite, E'er smelt it out, and grubbed it from the dirt. An art... | |
| C H. Payne - 1884 - 376 頁
...heaven is won." Let another poet ring in our ears these inspiring words of wisdom : "No man e'er gained a happy life by chance, Or yawned it into being with a wish." We must imbibe the spirit of Timothy, who endured " hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ," and... | |
| Edward John Hardy - 1886 - 332 頁
...marriage the measure of our happiness is usually in proportion to our deserts. " No man e'er gained a happy life by chance, Or yawned it into being with a wish." This, however, is just what many novices think they can do in reference to matrimony. They fancy that... | |
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