 | Alexander Dyce - 1825 - 472 頁
...life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And tho' but few can serve, yet all may please ; O let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. To spread large bounties, tho' we wish in vain, Yet all may shun the guilt of giving pain. To bless mankind with tides of flowing... | |
 | Domestic anecdotes - 1825 - 318 頁
...life's best joys consist in peace and ease. And few can serve or save, but all may please. Oh ! let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. Large bounties to bestow we wish in vain, But all may shun the guilt of giving pain. To bless mankind... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 422 頁
...life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all may please : Oh ! let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. Large bounties to bestow we wish in vain ; But all may shun the guilt of giving pain. SENSIBILITY.... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 432 頁
...life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all may please : Oh ! let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. Large bounties to bestow we wish in vain ; But all may shun the guilt of giving pain. SENSIBILITY.... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1826 - 582 頁
...serve, yet all may please: O ! let the ungentle spirit lear n from hence, A small unkindness may give great offence. To spread large bounties though we...in vain, Yet all may shun the guilt of giving pain : To bless mankind with tides of flowing wealth, With rank to grace them, or to crown with health,... | |
 | Hannah More - 1827 - 542 頁
...please ; О let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A email unkindness is a great offence. Tospread large bounties, though we wish in vain, Yet all may shun the guilt of giving pain : To bless mankind with tides of (lowing wealth, With rank to grace them, or to crown with health,... | |
 | Amelia Opie - 1828 - 300 頁
...on the heart of a fellow-creature, which no human being is warranted to inflict on another— " For, let the ungentle spirit learn, from hence, A small unkind-ness is a great offence." Before I proceed to the next class of detractors, I beg leave to make a few remarks on some, who seem... | |
 | 1828 - 454 頁
...life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And tho' but few can serve, yet all may please ; ' O let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence." The whole -poem, with the exception of some objections to preachers of benevolence like Sterne (who... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1828 - 460 頁
...life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And tho' but few can serve, yet all may please; O let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence." The whole poem, with the exception of some objections to preachers of benevolence like Sterne (who... | |
 | Hannah More - 1830 - 458 頁
...life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please : O let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness...in vain, Yet all may shun the guilt of giving pain : To bless mankind with tides of flowing wealth, With rank to grace them or to crown with health, Our... | |
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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; O let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness... 
