| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 páginas
...this part which I here set down, if a very little were corrected, I should hardly now be much ashamed. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour 1 would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th* unknown are better than ill-known. Rumour... | |
| Hand and heart - 1879 - 180 páginas
...object, the young wife merited her old Hebrew name of Beulah. s CHAPTER II. ABOUT LODGINGS AND LODGERS. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. COWLEY. ETTERS were not so frequent at widow Curtice's as to be received with indifference, or so numerous... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 páginas
...before. EDITOR. 1 Spectator, no. 62. 1. A WISH, [First printed in Poetical Blossomes, 2nd edition.] This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...I would have Not from great deeds, but good alone. The unknown are better than ill known ; Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but when... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 páginas
...before. EDITOR. 1 Spectator, no. 62. I. A WISH. [First printed in Poetical Blossomes, 2nd edition.] This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...I would have Not from great deeds, but good alone. The unknown are better than ill known ; Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but when... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 páginas
...? From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise. MATTHEW PRIOR. OF MYSELF. Tins 72 02 honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better than ill known :... | |
| Albert Newton Raub - 1880 - 280 páginas
...nests, repair. — Milton. Exercise. Analyze the following sentences, and parse all the adjectives: L This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. — Cowley. 1. They shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land. —... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 páginas
...Fortune ! now, And chines of beef innumerable send me, Or from the stomach of the guard defend me. IX. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone : The unknown are better than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but... | |
| 1881 - 578 páginas
...; and hence the ntjyrfme charm of Cowley's Essays, more especially of this essay."— Bithop Burd. \/ \/ $\/ bnt Rood alone ; The unknown are better, than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 páginas
...to feign, and wish'd to see, My Muse bade, Bedford write, and that was she. BEN JOXSOH. OF MYSELF. d to please her mind, Kotes from the lark I'll borrow ; Bird, prune thy wing, nightinga honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better than ill known :... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 páginas
...Tills only grunt me, that my menus may !!• Too low for envy, for ran tempi too high. So mi? Imuour 1 would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better thnn ill-known. Rumour can ope the grave: Acquaintance I would Imve ; but when t depends Not on the... | |
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