 Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.  The Philosophy of Rhetoric - Page 379by George Campbell - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...scenes and changes must we pass ? The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in, must be happy. But... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...shepherds trod,) In a deep cave, (dug by na mortal hand,) An hermit liv'd," &c. TRAGEDY OF DOUGLAS. '-' If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue." TRAGEDY OF CATO. " Farewell, a long farewell to... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...examination. This my little book had for its motto these lines from Addison's Cato: " Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy." Another... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 762 pages
...prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds and darkness rest upon JOSEPH ADDISON. Here will I hold! If there's a Power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in Virtue, And that which he delights in must be happy; But... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works.) he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in, must be happy. But... | |
 | Frank Townsend Southwick - Oratory - 1900 - 472 pages
...unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 450 pages
...within us; Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter. And intimates eternity to man. If there is a power above us, And that there is all Nature cries aloud Thro1 all her works, he must delight in virtue, And that which he delights in must be happy." Nor is... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 614 pages
...unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadow*, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — he must delight la virtue And that which He delights in must be happy. But... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 pages
...examination. This my little book had for its motto these lines from Addison's " Cato : " " Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy." Another... | |
 | Otto Ritter - 1901 - 280 pages
...I would not lose for all the blessings of sense, or enjoyments of the world," etc. spirirt zu sein: 'If there's a power above us (And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works),' etc. Sterne'sches Empfinden klingt in den Strophen IX und Xu, 6 herauf; vgl.... | |
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