 | 1849 - 1188 pages
...obtain the richest blessings of life. . 14 No good of worth sublime will Heaven permit, To light mi man as from the passing air ; The lamp of genius, though by nnture lit, If not protected, pruned, and fed with care, Soon dies or runs to waste with fitful glare.... | |
 | 1836 - 424 pages
...Strength to complete, and with delight review, " ^1 grace to give the praise where all is ever due. ' <l No good of worth sublime will Heaven permit To light...fitful glare ; And learning is a plant that spreads and tower* Slow as Columbia's aloe, proudly rare, That 'mid gay thousands, with the suns and showers Of... | |
 | 1851 - 428 pages
...Strength to complete, and with delight review, And grace to give the praise where all is ever due. No good of worth sublime will Heaven permit To light on man as from the passing air ; The lamp of genins, though by nature lit, If not protected, pruned, and fed with care, Soon dies, or runs to waste... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...Heaven permit To li^ht on man as from the passing air; The Limp of genius, though by nature lit, II not protected, pruned, and fed with care, (' Soon...plant that spreads and towers Slow as Columbia's aloe, proudlv rare, That, mid gay thousands, with the suns and showers Of half a century, grows alone before... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 pages
...Strength to complete, and with delight review, And grace to give the praise where all is ever due. No good of worth sublime will Heaven permit To light...runs to waste with fitful glare ; And learning is a plai it that spreads and towers Slow as Columbia's aloe, proudly rare, That, mid gay thousands, with... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 pages
...Strength to complete, and with delight review, And grace to give the praise where all is ever due. Soon dies, or runs to waste with fitful glare; And...learning is a plant that spreads and towers Slow as Colombia's aloe, proudly rare, That, 'mid gay thousands, with the suns and showers Of half a century,... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...bottled beer. TRUMBULL'S McFingal. 6. The lamp of genius, tho' by nature lit, If not protected, prun'd, and fed with care, Soon dies, or runs to waste with fitful glare. CARLOS Wocox. 7. He drew his light from that he was amidst, As doth a lamp from air which hath itself... | |
 | 1849 - 614 pages
...is a price put into our hands to obtain the richest blessings of life. " No good of worth subliiun will Heaven permit, To light on man as from the passing air ; The lamp of genius, though by inture lit, If not protected, pruned, and fed with care, Soon dies or runs to waste with fitful glare.... | |
 | Cotesworth Pinckney - 1851 - 212 pages
...respecting it may be — as with a nice piece of mechanism — the remote cause of its entire derangement. " No good of worth sublime will heaven permit To light...care, Soon dies, or runs to waste with fitful glare." The first object upon which genius and talent should be brought to bear, is the investigation of the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...Heaven permit To Ij^ht on man as from the passing air ; 1 The haip of genius, though by nature lit, I If not protected, pruned, and fed with care, Soon...and towers •Slow as Columbia's aloe, proudly rare, Tlut, mid gay thousands, with the suns and showers Of half a century, grows alone before it flowers.... | |
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No good of worth sublime will Heaven permit To light on man as from the passing air ; The lamp of genius, though by nature lit, If not protected, pruned, and fed with care, Soon dies, or runs to waste with fitful glare... 
