 Can buy, no chymic art can counterfeit; It makes men rich in greatest poverty; Makes water wine, turns wooden cups to gold, The homely whistle to sweet music's strain: Seldom it comes, to few from heaven sent, That much in little, all in naught, — content.  Burns's Standard reading-books - Pàgina 136per James Burns (publisher.) - 1867Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 432 pàgines
...So, like swans of Meander, My ghost from hence shall wander, Singing and dying, singing and dying. T THERE is a jewel which no Indian mine can buy, No...to gold, The homely whistle to sweet music's strain ; V Seldom it comes, to few from heaven sent, That much in little — all in nought — Content. CHANGE... | |
 | Thomas Lyle - 1827 - 272 pàgines
...say, Come ye wantons here to play. WlLBYE— 1598. CONTENT. THERE is a jewel which no Indian mines can buy, No chemic art can counterfeit; It makes men...few from heaven sent, That much in little, all in naught — Content. WILBYE— 1G09. TO SHORTEN WINTER'S SADNESS. To shorten winter's sadness, See where... | |
 | Ancient ballads - 1827 - 270 pàgines
...say, Come ye wantons here to play. WILBYE— l598. CONTENT. THERE is a jewel which no Indian mines can buy, No chemic art can counterfeit; It makes men...few from heaven sent, That much in little, all in naught — Content. WILBYE— l609. TO SHORTEN WINTER'S SADNESS. To shorten winter's sadness, See where... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pàgines
...and dignity of things, and another to know the little nicks and sprmgs of acting.—Seneea. CCCXXXIV. There is a jewel which no Indian mine can buy, No...Seldom it comes, to few from heaven sent, That much in little—all in naught—Content. From Wilbyes Madrigals, 1598. cccxxxv. The little mind who loves... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pàgines
...dignity of things, and another to know the little nicks and springs of acting. — Seneca. CCCXXXIV. There is a jewel which no Indian mine can buy, No chemic art can counterfeit; -«i It makes men rich in greatest poverty, Makes water wine, turns wooden cups to gold, The homely... | |
 | James Everett - 1842 - 592 pàgines
...trilled one of the madrigals of Wilbye, of 1598:— " There is a jewel which no Indian minc can buy, Xo chemic art can counterfeit ; It makes men rich in greatest poverty, Makes water winc, turns wooden cups to gold, The homely whistle to sweet music's strain ; Seldom it comes, to few... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1850 - 688 pàgines
...ghost of many a veteran bill Shall hover round his alumben. AGRICULTURE FAVORABLE TO LOCAL ATTACHMENTS. There is a jewel which no Indian mine can buy, No...rich in greatest poverty, Makes water wine, turns wooded cups to gold, The homely whistle to sweet music's strain; Seldom it comes, to few from Heaven... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1851 - 386 pàgines
...whatever may be his circumstances, that man has found out the secret of being cheerful in adversity. " There is a jewel which no Indian mine can buy, No chemic art can counterfeit ; It makes man rich in greatest poverty, Makes water wine, turns wooden cups to gold, The homely whistle to sweet... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1851 - 312 pàgines
...whatever may be his circumstances, that man has found out the secret of being cheerful in adversity. " There is a jewel which no Indian mine can buy, No chemic art can counterfeit ; It makes man rich in greatest poverty, Makes water wine, turns wooden cups to gold, The homely whistle to sweet... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pàgines
...land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God. Byron. There is a jewel which no Indian mines can buy, No chemic art can counterfeit ; It makes...few from heaven sent, That much in little — all in naught — Content. Wtibye's Madrigals, 1598. i CONTENTMENT. Contentment gives a crown, Where fortune... | |
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