 | Jacob Halls Drew - 1834 - 556 էջ
...as he continued his literary labours. Adopting as a maxim, and rule of conduct, Pope's couplet — " Honour and shame from no condition rise : Act well your part, — there all the honour lies," — frequently, after he had attained celebrity as an author, he performed menial offices, the propriety... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 298 էջ
...Corner" of a village paper, but her whole life was an illustration of the oldfashioned couplet— " Honour and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honour lies." She never was presidentess of a " society for ameliorating the condition of the Jews," or secretary... | |
 | President of a college - 1836 - 156 էջ
...rhyming together? A. A couplet; while three, under similar; circumstances, are called a triplet; as, " Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies." " The hare in pastures or in plains is found, Emblem of human life! who runs the round; And after all his... | |
 | 1836 - 784 էջ
...HONOURS, By Professor DEWHUBST, FESL &c., President of the Verulam Philosophical Society of London. "Honour and shame from no condition rise; " Act well your part, there all the honour lies." WHAT are titles and honours, but a deserved recompense and reward of true virtues ; and which should... | |
 | Society for improving the condition of the labouring classes - 1836 - 624 էջ
...regarded society at large, and as much entitled to respect, as those who rode in their carriages. " Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies." He would urge upon them the necessity of industry, sobriety, and economy, in order to secure that independence,... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1836 - 632 էջ
...what he was: — where and how he was born. What does it matter " where and how" a man is BORN ? " Honour and Shame from no condition .rise : ACT WELL YOUR PART — there all the honour lies." In what sort of homes were Shakspeare, and Milton, and Newton born ? To be sure, my friend must not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 էջ
...190 Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a thousand pounds a year. Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made, One flaunta in rags, one flutters in hrocade ; The cohhler... | |
 | 1836 - 566 էջ
...think of but his fallen state, and, perhaps, the imprudence that may have led to it. What says Pope ? " Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part — there all the honour lies." And had it not been permitted to me to gain an honest livelihood by my pen, I should have been a coachman... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 էջ
...190 Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a thousand pounds a year. Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The cobbler... | |
 | 1844 - 606 էջ
...in life be the lowest. Another poet has said, and, properly understood, the saying is most true, — "Honour and shame from no condition rise: ACT WELL YOUR PART, THERE ALL THE HONOUR LIES." We have it in our power to tell " a true tale," illustrating this. MARY HOWARD was born at Cutler-Hill,... | |
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Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. 
