 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - Страниц: 366
...fatisfy the reader's curiofity by inferting it here. IX. This only grant me, that my means may lye, Too low for envy', for contempt too high : Some honour...would have ; Not from great deeds, but good alone, The unkaown are better than ill knows, Rumour can ope the grave: Acquaintance I would have, but when... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - Страниц: 298
...little were corrected), I fhould hardly now be muc.h afhamed. This only grant me, that my means may Ijc 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... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - Страниц: 228
...part, which I here fet down (if a very little were corrected), I mould hardly now be much afhamed. This only grant me, that my means- may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. K 2 Some Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better, than'... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1772 - Страниц: 300
...envy, for contempt too high, ' Some' hono'ur \ would have, Not from great^eeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better, than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance .I would have, but v\hen 't depends Not on the number,' but the choice of friends, . * . • 10. A £oQks flxDuIJ, not... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - Страниц: 228
...which I here fet down (if a very little were correfted), I fhould hardly now be much afhamed. 9This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. , K z Some Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone; The unknown are better,... | |
 | John Bell - 1777 - Страниц: 658
...the guard defend me. IX. This only grant me, that my means may lie 65 Too low for envy, for eontempt too high. .Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknowers are better than ill known : Rumour ean ope the grave. 70 Aequaintants I would have, but when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Страниц: 520
...this part, which I here fet down (if a very little were correfted) I mould hardly now be much afhamed; This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...good alone; Th' unknown are better than ill known i Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but when 't depends Not on the number, but the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Страниц: 514
...part, which I here fet down (if a very little were correfted) I fhould hardly now be much afhamed. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...deeds,, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill knowa i Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but when 't depends Not on the number,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Страниц: 384
...Fortune, now ! And chines of beef innumerable fend me, Or from the ftomach of the guard defend me. 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 from the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Страниц: 424
...this part, which I here fet down (if a very little were correfted) I mould hardly now be much afhamed. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone 5 Th' unknown are better than ill known i Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but... | |
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Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but when "t depends Not on the number, but the choice, of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturb'd as death, the night. 
