 | Mary Ann Hedge - 1819 - 146 pages
...friendship, wisdom, and delight; Twins tied by nature; if they part they die. Hast tkuu uo I'ncuil to set thy mind abroach: Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil like bales, unopen'd to the sun. Had thoughts been all, sweet speech had been denied ; Speech, thought's canal!... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 412 pages
...flowers, So men from friendship, wisdom and delight ; Twins ty'd by Nature ; if they part, they die. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ? Good...stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the Sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied ; Speech, thought's canal!... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 pages
...matter-of-fact affair, a truism. Again, here is a comparison, which is a trifle too long for a proverb : — " Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun." Here is a turn of thought equally correct and felicitous : — " Soon as man, expert from time, has... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 pages
...flowers, So men from Friendship, wisdom and delight; Twins, tied by Nature ; if they part, they die. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ? Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up want And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. [air, Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied... | |
 | John Kendall - 1826 - 406 pages
...state wherein we are placed, and a secret approbation of the Divine Will in His conduct towards man. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ? Good...Thoughts, shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unqpen'd to the Bun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied ; Speech, thought's canal,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1826 - 318 pages
...; Twins, tied by Nature ; if they part, they die. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ? 465 Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied ; Speech ! thought's canal... | |
 | 1827 - 290 pages
...flow'rs, So men from friendship, wisdom, and delight; Twins ty'd by nature ; if they part they die. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ? Good...Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been deny'd ; Speech, thought's canal !... | |
 | Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1828 - 140 pages
...concerns. How delightful, also, is the interchange of thought between kindred spirits ; Hast tlinu no friend to set thy mind abroach, Good sense will...want air, And spoil; like bales unopened to the sun. "Tis converse qualifies for solitude, As excercise for salutary rest. How desirable, moreover, is it... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...restless troubled waves, Dashing out one another. HOWARD. Twins tied by nature, if they part they die. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ? Good...stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. Had thovghi been all, sweet speech had been denied ; Speech, thought's canal !... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...flowers, So men from friendship, wisdom and delight ; Twins ty'd by Nature ; if they part, they die. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ? Good...stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the Sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied ; Speech, thought's canal !... | |
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Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ; Good Sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun. 
