 E'er smelt it out, and grubb'd it from the dirt. An art it is, and must be learn 'd; and learn'd With unremitting effort, or be lost, And leave us perfect blockheads in our bliss. The clouds may drop down titles and estates; Wealth may seek us; but wisdom...  The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts - Seite 82von Edward Young - 1802 - 383 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1889 - 934 Seiten
...number, and apply My trembling heart to wisdom. tc. YUUNU — Sight Tli'jiiyhtx. Night IX. Line 1314. The clouds may drop down titles and estates: Wealth...else. We seek on earth!) 'tis never sought in vain . I. YOUNO— Night Thoughts. Night VIII. Line 6:20. Wisdom, awful wisdom! which inspects, Discerns,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 Seiten
...not enclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom. — Saadi. WISDOM. 556 WISDOM. The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us , but wisdom must be sought. — Young. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile. Shakespeare. Trne wisdom is a thing very extraordinary.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 Seiten
...late. Seize Wisdom ere 'tis torment to be wise ; That is, seize Wisdom ere she seizes thee. YOUNG. The clouds may drop down titles and estates ; Wealth...else We seek on earth!) 'tis never sought in vain. YOUNG: Night Thoughts. Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead... | |
 | John Albert Green - 1902 - 132 Seiten
...2. — Sunday schools and other poems. Heywood : J. Heywood, printer. 1846. 3. — Motives to Piety. "The clouds may drop down titles and estates ; Wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought." — Young. London. 1850. [John Heywood, printer.] i8mo., pp. no. 4. — Motives to Faith. London. 1852.... | |
 | Alexander Sterret Paxton - 1908 - 306 Seiten
...taters," these negroes forgot their scare and did justice to the meal. CHAPTER XXI THE NEW TEACHER "The clouds may drop down titles and estates; Wealth...else We seek on earth!) 'tis never sought in vain." — Young. The snows of another winter had fallen gently upon the little grave under the moaning pine,... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1910 - 872 Seiten
...made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires. JG Holland. The clouds may drop down titles and estates ; Wealth...else We seek on earth !} 'tis never sought in vain. Solid love, whose root is virtue, can no more die, than virtue itself. Erasmus. Parting day Dies like... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 Seiten
...happiness? That unobtainYl, than folly more a fool. 5681 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 500 The clouds may drop down titles and estates; Wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought; bought before all ; (but how unlike all else We seek on earth !) 'tis never sought in vain. Wisdom,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 Seiten
...happiness? That unobtain'd, than folly mor<; a fool. 5681 Young: Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 500 The clouds may drop down titles and estates ; Wealth may seek us; but wisdom must he sought; Sought before all ; (but how unlike all else We seek on earth !) 'tis never sought in vain.... | |
 | 1913 - 264 Seiten
...Goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. Cowper: Expostulation. The clouds may drop down titles and estates; Wealth...else We seek on earth ! ) 'tis never sought in vain. Young: Night Thoughts. What were the wise man's plan? — Through this sharp, toil-set life, To work... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 Seiten
...Art it is, and must be learnt ; and learnt With unremitting Effort, or be lost ; And leave us perfect Blockheads, in our Bliss : The Clouds may drop down...else We seek on Earth ?) 'tis never sought in vain. Night Thoughts, viii, 1745 GEORGE BERKELEY, BISHOP OF CLOYNE 1685-1753 142 Verses on the Trospect of... | |
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