| Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 454 páginas
...with her ! and she So good a lady, that no tongue could ever Pronounce dishonour of her: — I swear 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Tfcjn to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow : — Who would on such conditions... | |
| 1806 - 824 páginas
...let them, here reflect on this incomparable ftate of genuine tranquillity, and they will find that ' 'Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perched up in a glitt'riug grief, And wear a golden forrow.' O I pafTed along the wood, meditating... | |
| William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 546 páginas
...lady ! She's a stranger now again.8 Anne. So much the moro Must pity drop upon her. Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, * To give her the avaunt .'] To send her away contemptuously ; to pronounce against her a sentence... | |
| Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 páginas
...Amhition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure. GBAT'S Elegy. 'Tis hetter to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to he perk'd up in a glistening grief, And wear a golden sorrow. -Kmg Henry Fill. THE character of the... | |
| 1820 - 132 páginas
...him she loved so dearly ; ' sleep seldom visits sorrow, when it doth, it is a comforter.' CHAPTER IV Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be per'd up in a glistering grief And mean a golden sorrow. SHAKESPEARE'S HENRY Sth. THK Evening appointed... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 650 páginas
...lead her, and of which her own fate was, ere long, to be another illustration — ' Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow — I would not be a queen !' — and the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 648 páginas
...lead her, and of which her own fate was, ere long, to be another illustration — ' Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to he perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow — I would not be a queen !' — and... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...man in hid nffic-;, but if ii..- rtay "p afler midnight you shall take him napping. — JUshnp CCXLIL 'Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Shakspcare. CCXLIII. Sharpness cuts slight things best;... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 páginas
...The wars flame most in Summer, and the helmets gliitrr brightest in the fairest sunshine. Spenser. Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content. Than to be perked up in a glittering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Shahxpeare. All that gluten is not gold.... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 816 páginas
...the wind, and wag their wriggle tails, Peor* as a peacock, but nought avails. Spenser. 'Tis belter to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glist'ring grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Shakspeare. Henry VIII. If, after all, you... | |
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