 | 1877 - 362 σελίδες
...Mind. — My MIND to me an empire is, While grace ailordeth health. — R. SOUTHWELL, Jesuit, 1595. — My MIND to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I lind, As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God and Nature hath assigned. Though much I want that most... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 σελίδες
...Mind. — My MIND to me an empire is, While grace affordeth health. — K. SOUTHWELL, Jesuit, 1595. — My MIND to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find, As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God and Nature hath assigned. Though much I want that most would... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1884 - 370 σελίδες
...actions, according to the law of the Lord who created him; and he will be able to say with the poet, My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss. But if he governs himself according to his own fancy, which is no... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 σελίδες
...MILTON. The mind is its own place, and in itself, Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. MILTON. My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God and nature hath assi^n'd. PERCY : from ByrcTs Psiilmes, etc.... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 232 σελίδες
...philosophic song was famous in the 16th century. It is quoted by Ben Jonson in one of his plays. Mr mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God or Nature hath assigned>. Though much I want, that most would... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1879 - 648 σελίδες
...the house in which he had been nursed at Kingsland. P. 449, L 2. The piece of poetry beginning — " My mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find" — was set to music by the celebrated W. Byrd, in 1558, in a book called " Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1880 - 686 σελίδες
...thought and sentiment and principles, and the press gives to these wings to fly and tongues to speak. "My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss. Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1880 - 362 σελίδες
...Saviour less cause to sigh ? It is not only from the heights of religious rapture that the poets sing, " My mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find, That it excells all other bliss Which God or nature hath assigned ;" or again the noble lyric — "... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1880 - 362 σελίδες
...Saviour less cause to sigh ? It is not only from the heights of religious rapture that the poets sing, " My mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find, That it excells all other bliss Which G^d or nature hath assigned ; " or again the noble lyric— "... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 σελίδες
...guineas for his annotations upon it. The following vigorous and impressive stanzas are by BYRD : — My mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find, As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assigned. Though much I want, that most would... | |
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MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assigned ; Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. 
