 | 1854 - 690 էջ
...than gifts to lend, • To crave for less, and more obey, Nor dare with Heaven's high will contend. 5 This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise...though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all. LM 467. SIOSTGOMEBT. Humility. i THE bird that soars on highest wing Builds on the ground her lowly... | |
 | 1855 - 458 էջ
...are given by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good ; Who hath his life from rumors freed ; Whose conscience is his strong retreat ; Whose state...to lend ; And entertains the harmless day. With a well-chosen book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall ;... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 էջ
...but rules of good ; Who hath his life from rumors freed ; Whose conscience is his strong retreat j Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin...gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall ;... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1855 - 530 էջ
...His grace than goods to lend, And walks with man, from day to day, As with a brother and a friend ! 4 This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise,...though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. 280. SM JOHM. PURITY. 1 O ! KNOW ye not that ye The temple are of God 7 Revere the earth-built shrine,... | |
 | 1923 - 748 էջ
...early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a well chosen book or friend ; This man is freed from servile bands...not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. Sir Thomas More was such a man. On Monday, July 5th, !535> the night before he was beheaded, he wrote ("with... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 էջ
...is his strong retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great; 5. Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace...the harmless day With a religious book or friend; 6. This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though... | |
 | William J. Bennett - 1997 - 392 էջ
...wounds are given by praise; Nor rules of state, but rules of good: Who hath his life from rumors freed, Whose conscience is his strong retreat; Whose state...book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands, Or hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath... | |
 | Nahdjla Carasco Bailey - 2014 - 132 էջ
...early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend; - This man is freed from servile bands...not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. SIR HENRY WOTTON 1 Write a paragraph outlining the qualities the poet thinks are sure to make a man happy... | |
 | Henry Salt - 2000 - 198 էջ
...surpassing ability, and to him more than to any modern writer, can we apply Sir Henry Wbtton's stanza: This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise,...though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. We have seen that he was not, like Emerson, a philosopher of wide far-reaching sympathies and cautious... | |
 | George Eliot - 2005 - 1416 էջ
...That serveth not another's will? Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill? wear them.' 'How very puzzling!' said Miss Noble,...deficient. 'My dear, you are joking. You would have HENRY WOTTON Dorothea's confidence in Caleb Garth's knowledge, which had begun on her hearing that... | |
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Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise, Nor vice; who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good;... 
