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" Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience, sov'reign o'er... "
Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Rambler ... - Page 132
by Nathan Drake - 1809
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Class Book of Poetry: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English ...

John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...passions, and a will resigned ; * For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for...signal of retreat: These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods he grants, who grants the power to gain; With these celestial wisdom calms...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...man can fill j For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, paniing for a happitr seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat: These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain; With these celestial Wisdom calms...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...passions, and a will resigned ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for...signal of retreat : These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods he grants, who grants the power to gain; With these celestial wisdom calms...
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The Monthly herald, Volume 1

1858 - 930 pages
...passions, and a will resigned. For love, which scarce collective man can fill ; l''or patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that panting for a...signal of retreat: These goods for man the laws of heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the pow'r to gain ; With these Celestial Wisdom calms...
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The Practice of Criticism

D. H. Rawlinson - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 254 pages
...Skies aspires, 10 Pour forth thy Fervours for a healthful Mind, Obedient Passions, and a Will resign'd; For Love, which scarce collective Man can fill; For...transmuted ill; For Faith, that panting for a happier Seat, 1 5 Counts Death kind Nature's Signal of Retreat. These Goods for Man the Laws of Heav'n ordain, 17...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 pages
...passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collectire man can fill ; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for...Nature's signal of retreat : These goods for man the Jaws of heav'n ordain ; These goods he grants, who grants the power to gaiuWith these celestial Wisdom...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 29

George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1874 - 818 pages
...are to give thanks, he says, For love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal for retreat ; These goods for man, the laws of heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the...
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The Rāmāyaṇa of Tulasīdāsa

Tulasīdāsa - Philosophy - 1987 - 792 pages
...the sage, "My lord, nothing is hidden from you : you know why I have come, and therefore, sire, there For faith, that — panting for a happier seat — Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat." is no need to inform you. Give me now some charm by which I may destroy the persecutors of the saints."...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...passions, and a will resigned, 360 For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that panting for a...signal of retreat; These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain. These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain. With these celestial Wisdom calms...
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The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...eliminated; but it can be "transmuted" if we pray for God's "Love, which scarce collective Man can fill," and "For faith, that panting for a happier Seat, / Counts Death kind Nature's Signal of Retreat" (361-64). The poem's final couplet returns us to one of Johnson's key images - the empiricist who looks...
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