 | William Wilberforce - 1824 - 354 Seiten
...to be the instrument of administering pleasure. Not content With every food of life to nourish man, Thou mak'st all nature beauty to his eye And music to his ear. Our Maker also, in his kindness, has so constructed us, that even mere vicissitude is grateful and... | |
 | 1843 - 174 Seiten
...smell without fragrance, and we might have seen and heard, and yet it might never have been said: " Thou mak'st all nature beauty to his eye, And music to his ear." Surely such special adaptations to render what is necessary delightful, should call forth our highest... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1849 - 370 Seiten
...sod, as a green and flowery carpet. With what is the tent furnished ? Quote the words of a poet. " Thou mak'st all nature Beauty to his eye, And Music to his ear." What do you say of the universe as to its immensity ? It far exceeds our comprehension. In what manner... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1850 - 352 Seiten
...proceed onward in my journeyings. CHAPTER VI. — " Not content With every food of life to nourish man, Thou mak'st all nature beauty to his eye And music to his ear." — MILTON. ' The wild Maroons, impregnable and free, Among the mountain-holds of liberty, Sudden as... | |
 | John Randall - 1890 - 414 Seiten
...the Author of Nature, has written : "Not content with every kind of food to nourish man, Thon makest all Nature beauty to his eye And music to his ear." There are no bolts, bars, or boundary walls, and ' there need be " No calling left, no duty broke," in making... | |
 | A. O. J. Cockshut - 1966 - 276 Seiten
...to be the instrument of administering pleasure. Not content With every food of life to nourish man, Thou mak'st all nature beauty to his eye And music to his ear. Our Maker also, in his kindness, has so constructed us, that even mere vicissitude is grateful and... | |
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... faculties (and the same may be said of the whole creation which we see around us) is not only calculated to answer the proper end of its being, by its subserviency to some purpose of solid usefulness, but to be the instrument of administering pleasure.... 