 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 2008 - 1024 pages
...misery. Thus Congreve concludes the Tragedy of The Mouming Bride with the following foolish couplet: For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds And, though...eminently virtuous, a Brutus, a Cato, or a Socrates, fmally sinks under the pressure of accumulated misfortune, we are not only led to entertain a more... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 544 pages
...Thus Congreve concludes the Tragedy of ' The Mourning Bride' with the *following foolish couplet; ' For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, ' And,...entertain a more indignant hatred of vice, than if he arose from his distress, but we we inevitably induced to cherish the sublime idea that a future day... | |
 | 1888 - 626 pages
...THANKSG1VIN' PUMPKIN PIES. STILL in the paths of honor persevere, And not from past or present ills def p ilr; For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. — Congreve. So you bid me to Thanksgivin'l Thank you, neighbor, His kind To keep a plain old body... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 482 pages
...innocence survive, Still in the paths of honour persevere, And not from past or present ills despair ; For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds ; And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. [Exeunt паи,:.-. Though in clear sharp wit Congreve excels all other writers of what has been called... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1106 pages
...Sacrament. DR. J. DONNE. VIRTUE. Do well and right, and let the world sink. Country Parson. GEORGE HERBERT. The Mourning Bride, Act v. Sc. 12. W. CONGREVE. That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our... | |
 | Medicine - 1914 - 612 pages
...footsteps of the Great Physician. Doubtless he received the blessing given those who minister in His name: "For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds And though a late, a sure reward succeeds." Alike unselfish in his public life, he rendered his great war service for the good of the cause without... | |
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When a man eminently virtuous, a Brutus, a Cato, or a Socrates, finally sinks under the pressure of accumulated misfortune, we are not only led to entertain a more indignant hatred of vice, than if he... 
