| Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...Johnson. 'TO purchase Heaven has gold the power ? Can Gold remove the mortal hour ? In life can Love be bought with gold ? Are Friendship's pleasures to...that's worth a wish — a thought, Fair Virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind; Let nobler views engage thy mind. ),—... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1856 - 624 pages
...happiness. Young. To purehase heaven has gold the power? Can <;old remove the mortal hour ? In life ran love be bought with gold ? Are friendship's pleasures to...No — all that's worth a wish — a thought, Fair viitue gives unbrib'd, unboughs. Cease then on trnsh thy hopes lo bind, Let nobler views engage thy... | |
| John Wilson - Abbreviations, English - 1856 - 360 pages
...getting gold ? To purchase heaven, has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? — No : all that's worth a wish or thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Can gray hairs .make folly venerable? and is not... | |
| Conduct of life - 1859 - 802 pages
...t;hn power ? Can gold remove tbo luorUil hour? In Hie can love be bought with gold ? Are friendships pleasures to be sold ? No — all that's worth a wish, a thought, Fair virtue gives uubrib'd, unbought. Riches cannot be better described than as the Baggage of virtue, or by the Roman... | |
| Charles Richson - 1860 - 216 pages
...TOWER ? Can GOLD remove the MORTAL HOUR* ? In life' can LOVE be bought with GOLD? Are friendships' pleasures' to be SOLD* ? No*, all* that's worth a wish', a thought', Fair Virtue - gives' unbribed*, unbought*. Dr. Johnson. 4. Reft of thy sons', amid* thy foes' forlorn* Mourn*, - widow'd... | |
| Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...SIGOURNEY. To purchase heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold ? Are friendship's pleasures to...that's worth a wish, a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. DE. JOHNSON. The rich man's son inherits lands, And piles of brick, and stone,... | |
| Life-lights - 1864 - 336 pages
...friendship's pleasures to be sold ? No — all that 's worth a wish — a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let...hours indulge thy soul, Where mirth and temperance mix the bowl ; To virtuous love resign thy breast, And be, by blessing beauty, blest. Thus taste the... | |
| American poetry - 1864 - 334 pages
...friendship's pleasures to be sold ? No — all that 's worth a wish — a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind. In social hours indulge thy soul, Where mirth and temperance mix the bowl ; To virtuous love resign... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1866 - 412 pages
...telievest*. 8. To purchase heaven has gold the power' ? Can gold remove the mortal hour' ? In life, can love be bought with gold' ? Are friendship's pleasures...that's worth a wish, a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. 9. What would content you* ? Talents' ? No*. Enterprise' ! No*. Courage'? No\ Reputation'?... | |
| Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...the mortal hour r1 In life, can love be bought with gold P Are friendship's pleasures to be sold P No ; all that's worth a wish — a thought — Fair...thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind. Dr. Johnson, to a Friend. Perhaps he hath great projects in his mind, To build a college, or to found... | |
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