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" Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage and the human breast Torments alike with raging fires; With bright, but oft destructive, gleam, Alike o'er all his lightnings fly ; Thy lambent glories only beam Around the fav'rites of the sky. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D: In Thirteen Volumes - Page 545
by Samuel Johnson - 1788
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Drinking songs. Miscellaneous songs. Ancient ballads

Ballads, English - 1783 - 360 pages
...vanity and woe. 3 ONG SONG XXX. ON FRIENDSHIP. FRIENDSHIP, peculiar gift of Heaven, The noble minds delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. While Love, unknown among the bleft, Parent of rage and hot defires, The human, and the favage...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. In Fourteen Volumes. Vol. XIV.

Samuel Johnson - 1788 - 596 pages
...Prince MADOCK. INC LY TUS hie hasres magni requiefcit Oeni, Confeflas tantum mente manuque patrem; Servilem tuti cultum contempfit agelli, Et petiit...the bleft, Parent of rage and hot defires, The human and^the favage breaft Inflames alike with equal fires. "With bright but oft deftru&ive gleam, Alike...
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The banquet of Thalia, or the Fashionable songsters pocket memorial

Thalia, Frederick Atkinson (of York) - English ballads and songs - 1790 - 234 pages
...true failor— he was one* ( 200 ) SONG. ON FRIENDSHIP. Tj'RIENDSHIP ! peculiar gift of heav'n -*- The noble mind's delight and pride,— To men and...deny'd. While LOVE, unknown among the bleft, Parent of age and hot defines, The human and the favage breaft Inflames alike with equal fires. With bright,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...inferted in the Gentleman's Magazine of this year. FRIENDSHIP,, an ODE.* FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of heaven,. The noble mind's delight and pride,. To...deny'd. While love, unknown among the bleft, Parent of thoufand wild defires, The favage and the human breaft Torments alike with raging fires. With bright,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pages
...and inferted in the Gentleman's Magazine of this year. FRIENDSHIP, an ODE.* FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world deny'dl While love, unknown among the bleft, Parent of thoufand wild defires, The favage and the human...
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The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 4

1798 - 432 pages
...Friendfhip, peculiar boon of heav'n, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only giv'n, To all the lower world deny'd. While love, unknown among the bleft, Parent of thoufand wild defires, The favage and the human breaft Torments alike with raging fires. With bright,...
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Essays on Various Subjects: in which Some Characters of the Present Age are ...

Mary De La Garde, Sarah Guppy - 1800 - 112 pages
...friendfhip, there is ftill a -great pleafure in offering both at its fhrine. " Friendfhip, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. " While love, unknown among the bleft, Parent of thoufand wild delircs, The favage and the...
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The temple of Apollo, being a selection of the best poems, from the most ...

Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...JTRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of heav'n, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only giv'n, To all the lower world deny'd. While LOVE, unknown among the bleft, Parent of thoufand wild defires, The favage and the human breaft Torments alike, with raging fires. With bright,...
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The Nursery Garland: Being a Selection of Short, Classical Poems, Adapted to ...

W. M. - Children - 1801 - 356 pages
...follow'd, perhaps, by a fmile. COWPER. FRIENDSHIP. AN ODE. FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heav'n, The nobfe mind's delight and pride, . To men and angels only given, To all the lower wodd denied. While Love, vnknown among the bleft, Parent of thoufand wild deGres, The favage and the...
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The chaplet, poems, partly original and partly selected

Chaplet - 1805 - 238 pages
...Smiling sweetness dost thou show, Best of virtues here below. FRTENDSHIP. Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To...lower world deny'd. While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage and the human breast Torments alike with raging...
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