 | 1850 - 634 σελίδες
...Indolence is no more irreconcilable to virtue, than perfect ability incompatible with happiness ; "A want of occupation is not rest: A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd." All the powers conferred by a wise Creator, necessarily imply their application and use : and the more... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1836 - 690 σελίδες
...blessings, countless as the sand, are shed down upon all who put their trust in " I'LL TKY. I'LL TRY." " Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd," 'Tis difficult — 'tis difficult to learn, I know it — feel it — prove it day by day, Yet every... | |
 | 1851 - 592 σελίδες
...for indolence. " An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless as it goes as when it stands. Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distrest." The TASK, however, is by far the poet's greatest production, and had he written nothing... | |
 | Rev David MacKenzie - 1851 - 168 σελίδες
...of by evil spirits. It was so eighteen hundred years ago, and it will always so continue. " For want of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd." By judiciously dividing your time, you may read a large number of useful works during the voyage of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 620 σελίδες
...utmost faculties, severe indeed. 'Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant isa mind distressed. The veteran steed, excused his task at length, In kind compassion of his failing... | |
 | William Cowper - 1852 - 466 σελίδες
...severe indeed. 'Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace ; Ahsence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd ; The vet'ran steed, excused his task at length, In kind compassion of his failing strength, And turned into the park or... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 σελίδες
...faculties, severe indeed. 'Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace ; 620 Ab'sence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. The veteran steed, excused his task at length, In kind compassion of his failing strength,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 800 σελίδες
...utmost faculties, severe indeed. 620 Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace ; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind...distress'd. The vet'ran steed, excus'd his task at length, 625 In kind compassion of his failing strength, And turn'd into the park or mead to graze, Exempt from... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 796 σελίδες
...faculties, severe indeed. 620 'Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace ; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind...distress'd. The vet'ran steed, excus'd his task at length, 625 And turn'd into the park or mead to graze, Exempt from future service all his days, Theie feels... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 382 σελίδες
...utmost faculties, severe indeed. 'Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace ; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. The veteran steed, excused his task at length, In kind compassion of his failing strength, And turn'd into... | |
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Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd. 
