 | 1818 - 400 pages
...hour of trial came, When sickness shook this trembling frame, . • When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could dance and sing no more, It then...how sad 'twould be Were this world only made for me. 5. — KING WILLIAM LANDED. The glorious revolution of 1688 is commemorated on this day, when the throne... | |
 | 1818 - 550 pages
...of trial came, When sickness shook this trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And 1 could dance and sing no more, It then occurred how sad 'twould be Were this world only made for me. This is the only a small part of the very entertaining intellectual feast which the Comparative Chronology... | |
 | 1818 - 582 pages
...sickness shook this trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And 1 could dance and sinç no more, It then occurred how sad 'twould be Were this world only made for me. This is the only a small part of the very entertaining intellectual feast which the Comparative Chronology... | |
 | John Morison Duncan - 1823 - 436 pages
...came, When sickness shook my trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuit was o'er, And I could laugh and sing no more, It then occurred— how sad t'would be, Were this world only made for me !" 4M. Among the inmates of our boarding-house, while I resided here in summer, was a surgeon of the... | |
 | William Beloe, Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, William Rowe Lyall, Robert Nares - 1823 - 700 pages
...when the days of trial came, When sickness shook this trembling frame. When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could dance and sing no more, It then occurred, how sad 'twould be In the following page is an elegy on Mr. Dawson, which reminds us greatly of Mason and Gray, and is... | |
 | George Wentworth - 1824 - 378 pages
...when the days of trial came, When sickness shook this trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could dance, and sing no more, It then occurred, how sad 't would be, Were this world only made for me. ON DEATH. When young we Death deride, and at him scoff... | |
 | 1825 - 556 pages
...when the days of trial came, When sickness shook this trembling frame When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could dance and sing no more, It then...how sad 'twould be, Were this world only made for me ! An extract from Burns's Cotter's Saturday Night is common to this selection and the former : we rather... | |
 | Select poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...when the days of trial came, When sickness shook this trembling frame When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could dance and sing no more, It then occurred, how sad 'twould be, Were this worjd only made for me ! BOWRING. THE golden palace of my God Towering above the clouds I see : Beyond... | |
 | 1828 - 814 pages
...when the days of trial came, When sickness shook this trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could dance and sing no more, It then...how sad 'twould be Were this world only made for me. HEAVEN. Weep, mourner, for the joys that fade, Like evening lights away ; For hopes that like the stars... | |
 | Henry Clissold - 1829 - 716 pages
...trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could dance and sing no more, It then occurr'd how sad 'twould be Were this world only made for me *. PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES. Died November 6, 1817, aged 22. Putifncc in tribulation, and a resigned will, are... | |
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... and sung : And, proud of health, of freedom vain, Dreamed not of sorrow, care, or pain ; Concluding, in those hours of glee, That all the world was made for me. But when the... 
