 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1904 - 328 pages
...Abrtdged. 204 CONTENTMENT . EDWARD DYER SIR EDWARD DYER was an English poet of the sixteenth century. My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss That world affords, or grows by kind : a Though much I want what most men have, Yet doth my mind forbid... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - Proverbs - 1904 - 500 pages
...— Conington. 1531. Mens rcgnum bona possidet. Sen. Thyest, 380. — A good conscience is a kingdom. My mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find. — Byrd, Psalmes and Sonnets, 1588. 1532. Mentez, mes amis, mentez! Volt, (in Fourn. LDL, pp. 300-1,... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Social reformers - 1905 - 338 pages
...and heat. None who have died could more appropriately repeat the proud lines of Sir Edward Dyer : — "My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein...exceeds all earthly bliss That God or Nature hath assign'd." CHAPTER XXVI SINGULAR CAREER OF MR. DISRAELI I PREFER the picturesque name of Disraeli which... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1905 - 846 pages
...Scott was, and my father's new tenant, 1 Perhaps, as has been suggested, based on Dyer's verses — ' e parted at my Lord Brouncker's door, Langford, a tailor, to whom 1 have promised my custom, and he seems a very modest careful young man.... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...pole to pole, And in a flash from earth to heaven it goes, W, L, GARRISON, Sonnet, Written in Prison 1 My mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find, As far exceeds all earthly hliss That God and Nature hath assigned, BYED, Psalmes, Smncts. etc,, 1588 A mind content both crown... | |
 | Phantom Club - American literature - 1906 - 140 pages
...by the Kingdom of Light? I mean that realm of which a quaint old poet sang those quaint old lines: "My mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find." I mean that invisible commonwealth which outlives the storms of ages ; that state whose armaments are... | |
 | Henry Graham - Clergy - 1906 - 304 pages
...although I avoided preaching — except perhaps once each summer. CHAPTER XXIII RECREATION STUDIES My mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find. — Byrd IT is well for a minister to have some recreation studies which may divert his mind at times... | |
 | William George Waters - English literature - 1906 - 342 pages
...captain of my soul. WE Henley. Content -^x -^ *C> <2>(From Lyrics, Elegics, etc. Ed. : W. Byrd, f Y 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... | |
 | Readers - 1907 - 264 pages
...outer part. fo'li 0, a leaf of a book. ex'pe di ted, hastened. MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS EDWARD DYER MY mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein...assigned ; Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. Content I live; this is my stay — I seek no more than may suffice.... | |
 | Literature - 1907 - 922 pages
...mean by the Kingdom of Light I mean that realm of which a quain old poet sang those quaint old lines My mind to me a kingdom is, — Such perfect joy therein I find, As far exceeds all earthly bliss. I mean that invisible common wealth which outlives the storm of ages; that state whose armament are... | |
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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. 
