| Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 174 páginas
...Greek eWfXf'^f1a. subsistences: existences. See pp. 48, 5o. To be namelesse. Compare Cowley, A Wish : " Some honour I would have Not from great deeds, but good alone: The unknown are better than the ill known." The Canaanitish woman lives more happily: for her great... | |
| Oswald Doughty - 1924 - 222 páginas
...show " that I was then of the same mind as I am now " : " This only grant me, that my means may lye Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour...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't... | |
| Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 396 páginas
...ashamed. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone; Th' unknown are better than ill-known. Rumor can ope the grave; Acquaintance I would have ; but when't depends Not on the number,... | |
| 1925 - 262 páginas
...Office of Owner and Publisher, 512 515 Masonic Temple, Erie, Pa. Volume 1. November 1, 1926 Number 3 "This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...for Contempt too high. Some honour I would have, not for great deeds, but good alone." — Abraham Cowley. OFFICIAL NOTICES AND WANTS The Annual Meeting... | |
| Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 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 honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone; Th" unknown are better than ill-known. Rumor... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 páginas
...eyes ? From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise. MATTHEW PRIOR. OF MYSELF. THIS only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better than ill known :... | |
| Burges Johnson - 1927 - 340 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...deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill-known. Rumour can ope the grave ; Acquaintance I would have ; but when 't depends Not on the number,... | |
| Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 páginas
...public storm, which would Too low for envy for contempt too high. guffer nothi to td where it jy but pacious wound. And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire rooted UP everv P^nt, even from the princely The unknown are better, than ill known: cedars to me the... | |
| Norman Ault - 1928 - 544 páginas
...mistress, rosy -pale, Adding beauty to her veil. Brathwaite.' The English Gentlewoman. 1631. Of Myself 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... | |
| Ernest Edward Kellett - 1928 - 296 páginas
...morning exercise; For sure no minutes bring us more content Than those in pleasing useful studies spent. "This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high," says Cowley: the corresponding passage in Pomfret runs off into a sermon: and the result is that though... | |
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