 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 страници
...discernment praised, And sound integrity, not more than famed For sanctity of manners undefiled. * All flesh is grass, and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind ; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream The man we celebrate must find... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1835 - 498 страници
...brooks In Vallombrosa.' The flower, that we rear to deck the grave, is but an emblem of ourselves: ' All flesh is grass, and all its glory fades, Like the fair flower dishevel'd in the wind ; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.' To the moralist, the labors of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 страници
...him, ignoble graves. 265 Nothing is proof against the general curse Of vanity, that seizes all below. The only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue, the...But what is truth " ? 'twas Pilate's question put 270 To Truth itself, that deign 'd him no reply. And wherefore ? will not God impart his light To them... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 страници
...6. 13 Prov. xxiii. 5. Nothing is proof against the general curse Of vanity, that seizes all below. The only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue, the only lasting treasure, truth. But what is truth 14 ? 'twas Pilate's question put 270 To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply. And wherefore ? will... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 страници
...prunella." Those lines in Cowper also must sound 'very puerile or old-fashioned to courtly ears : — "The only Amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue ; the only lasting treasure, truth." To this sentiment, however, we subscribe our hearts and hands. There is nothing truly liberal but that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 страници
...deep discernment praised, And sound integrity, not more than famed For sanctity of manners undefiled. All flesh is grass, and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind ; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream. The man we celebrate must find... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 страници
...prunella." Those lines in Cowper also must sound very puerile or old-fashioned to courtly ears : — " The only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue ; the only lasting treasure, truth." To this sentiment, however, we subscribe our hearts and hands. There is nothing truly liberal but that... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 страници
...prunella." Those lines in Cowper also must sound very puerile or old-fashioned to courtly ears : — " The only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue ; the only lasting treasure, truth." To this sentiment, however, we subscribe our hearts and hands. There is nothing truly liberal but that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 206 страници
...deep discernment prais'd, And sound integrity, not more than fam'd For sanctity of manners undefil'd. All flesh is grass, and all its glory fades Like the fair llow'r dlahevell'd in the wind ; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream ; The man we celebrate... | |
 | Henrietta F. Vallé - 1837 - 230 страници
...Amaranth, and thought of Cowper, who says, in allusion to the beautiful sentiment it contains, --- " The only Amaranthine flower on earth is, virtue ; The only lasting treasure, truth. —" REFLECTIONS .IN A HERMITAGE. YE sacred walls, now darken'd o'er by time, What scenes of pleasure... | |
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Like the fair flower dishevelled in the wind ; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream ; The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves. Nothing is proof against the general curse Of vanity, that seizes all below. The... 
