 For, oh, if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this ! There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love...  Biography of Reginald Heber, Lord Bishop of Calcutta: Abridged for the Use ... - Page 298by Leonard Crocker Bowles - 1831 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ariel Ivers Cummings - Conduct of life - 1849 - 200 pages
...die ! One hour of a passion so sacred, is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss ; And O ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, — it is this!" So says the poet, and so say we. If there is any truly valuable association in life ; — if there... | |
 | Child rearing - 1849 - 314 pages
...die. One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss; And O ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, — it is this." — Thomas Moore. THE YOUNG LADY'S FRIEND. Written for the Young Lady's Friend, EVENING AND MORNING.... | |
 | William Charles McKinnon - American fiction - 1852 - 300 pages
...they die. One hour of passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss ; And 0 ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this ! it is this ! "— MOOBB. " AND so, St. George, you are still pacing up and down here, ruminating, no doubt, on... | |
 | Literature - 1867 - 746 pages
...of Eden was in Asia, I should think that I had found it to-day in your delicious retreat ; " ' For if there be an elysium on earth, It is this — it is this." " " Sir Charles Dashington is pleased to flatter my poor Bagatelle." " Pardonnez mot, Mademoiselle,... | |
 | India - 1854 - 786 pages
...Heber1 says, "Round the frieze is the motto recorded, I believe, in ' I. 501. Lull* Bookh :— " ' If there be an Elysium on earth It is this, it is this ! ' " 9 Franklin, ut lupra, •','•". * i. sea. 4 Von Orllch. Traveli In India 9 Franklin, ut •upra,... | |
 | 1854 - 496 pages
...in Persian characters, is the inscription well known as paraphrased in Lalla Rookh, in the lines, ' If there be an Elysium on earth, it is this, it is this !' This building, like the remainder of the palace, is much dilapidated, and it is a pitiable sight... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish poetry - 1854 - 316 pages
...love that is o'er, in expiring, gives birth To a new one as warm, as unequall'd in bliss ; And, oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this.J * Teflis is celebrated for its natural warm baths. See Ebn Haukal. f " The Indian Syrinda or... | |
 | Q. K. Philander Doesticks - American wit and humor - 1855 - 336 pages
...well content are we now with our City, that we feel, as the Hibernian poet so beautifully says : " 0, if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this — it is this." Orders for iny Balsam, accompanied ly the money , will be immediately attended to ; otherwise not,... | |
 | Michael Rafter - 1855 - 486 pages
...gardens, and park-like pleasure-grounds, I felt inclined to repeat the well-known Persian couplet : Oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this ! It is this ! Sol, in Homeric phrase, had now sunk into the arms of expecting Thetis, but the atmosphere was excessively... | |
 | Stephen Watson Fullom - Women - 1855 - 428 pages
...123 diversity of aspects, and the spectator concurred eagerly in the inscription on the frieze — " If there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this ! " Such was the structure in which the potent Akhbar Jvlum immured his five thousand wives, selected... | |
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