 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 pages
...to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness ; creates new hopes, when 3 N all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay,...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair !" While describing an animated scene of... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1832 - 330 pages
...the temple even by violence. PHYS. — I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; be it genius, power, wit, or fancy : but if I could choose...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair !^ POIET. — You transiently referred, Halieus,... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1832 - 330 pages
...instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise : and, far above all combinations tof earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair \^ POIET. — You transiently referred, Halieus,... | |
 | 1832 - 524 pages
...to Paradise ; and, far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visious of palms and amaranths, the gardens of the blest,...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair ! — 76. EPIGRAM. Life's pleasures are like... | |
 | 1833 - 814 pages
...Relaxed his brow severe, — And " J an» Happiness," he said, " If Virtue guides thee here !" RH I ENVY no quality of the mind, or intellect, in others ;...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair I — SIR HUMPHRY DAVY. 1832.J THE SA1URDAY... | |
 | 1833 - 310 pages
...Paradise ; and, far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of prims and amaranths, the gardens of the blest, the security...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair 1 — SIR HuMruuY DAVY1«3'JJ THE SATURDAY... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 418 pages
...decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in deatb, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair! " — P. 136. We might quote other passages,... | |
 | Henry Blake McLellan - 1834 - 416 pages
...earthly hopes calls up the most delightful visions of palms and amaranths, the gardens of the blessed, the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist...view only gloom, decay, annihilation and despair." No sooner do we receive the gospel in all its fulness, and obey it in all its commands, than the terrors... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 402 pages
...reflections on this passage in any other than the words of the publication itself. " Phys — I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair! " — P. 136. We might quote other passages,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 584 pages
...our reflections on this passage in any other than the words of the publication itself. " Pfiys I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair! " — P. 136. We might quote other passages,... | |
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I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights... 
