 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 trang
...having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old." — LKIGH HUNT. " Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead...and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon... | |
 | Francis Channing Woodworth - 1859 - 322 trang
...broken heart. ^ VALUE OF A LITERAEY TASTE. THE great astronomer, Sir John Herschel, says, " Were 1 to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead...and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, howevei things might go amiss, and the world frown upon... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 trang
...cunnmg to seem to know that he doth not. Bacon. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand by me in stead under every variety of circumstances,...and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield agamst its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 trang
...and virtue.2 His 1 "Dissenters" had not the privilege of Oxford and Cambridge Universities 2 "If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in...and the world frown upon me, it would be A TASTE FOR READma. I speak of it only as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as' superseding... | |
 | Maria Jane M'Intosh - 1860 - 156 trang
...Sporting, Useful Miscellaneous and Railway Literature, may also be obtained on application. " If I were to pray for a taste -which should stand me in...through life, and a shield against its ills, however tilings might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. I speak of it... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1860 - 570 trang
...L. BARBOUR BEQUEST <£ BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRAEY. SCHILLEK'S WOKKS. HISTORIOAL AND DRAMATIC. " Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead...and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon... | |
 | Hugh Blair Grigsby - 1860 - 128 trang
...MAIN ST., (under Atlantic Hotel,] NORFOLK, VA. " If I were to pray for a taste which would stand by me under every variety of circumstances, and be a source...happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and shield me against all its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 trang
...and virtue.* Hia 1 " Dissenters" bad not the privilege of Oxford and Cambridge Universities 2 " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me In stead under every variety of circunjstanees, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 trang
...happiness which Literature creates. Herschel refers to this in a most touching manner. He says : " If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in...world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man,... | |
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If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its Ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon... 
