| Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 σελίδες
...— HE WILL RESTORE, — " He doeth all things well." CHAPTER XXXIX. MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS. 1 . MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find, ' That it excels all other bliss That God or nature hath assigned ; Though much I want that most would... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1850 - 158 σελίδες
...'Twill surely rain, I see, with sorrow, Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow. SONG. SIR EDWAK DYER. My mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find, As far exceeds all earthly bliss, That God or nature hath assign'd ; Though much I want that most would... | |
| Elijah Waring - 1850 - 274 σελίδες
...perfect application, these stanzas from a fine old philosophical song of the sixteenth century, — " 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... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 σελίδες
...Oxford. In that manuscript the poem is ascribed to SIB EDWARD DYER, a friend of Sir Philip Sydney. MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find, As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assign'd. Though much I want that most would... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1854 - 532 σελίδες
...drink our morning draught of several wines: I drank nothing but 1 The piece of poetry beginning— " My mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect' joy therein I find"— some of her coffee, which was poorly made, with a little sugar in it. 31st. To my office, where comes,... | |
| 1854 - 456 σελίδες
...name with one consent ! 0, how great ! how excellent ! PEACE OF MIND. — From Old English Poetry. 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... | |
| 1855 - 458 σελίδες
...name with one consent ! O, how great ! how excellent ! PEACE OF MIND. — From Old English Poetry. 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... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 σελίδες
...name with one consent ! O, how great ! how excellent ! >EACE OP MIND. — From Old English Poetry. 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... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 378 σελίδες
...mislead the morn. But my kisses bring again, Seals of love, but sealed in vain." The well-known lines, "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," seem to have had their origin... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 σελίδες
...foot on sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. From Byrd's Psalmes, Sonets, etc., 1588. 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... | |
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