 | Dinah Maria Craik - 1860 - 402 pągines
...welcome, it was deserted ; the Englishman and his daughter had gone, no one knew whither. CHAPTER IV. " How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's...honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill. This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall, Lord of himself, tho' not of... | |
 | Valentin Jamerai-Duval - 1860 - 306 pągines
...commutations which were almost worse. — ED. sxg CHAPTEE XXL THE SUNSET HOUR. How happy is he 'bora or taught That serveth not another's will, Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill ; Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death, Not tied unto... | |
 | Ellen Courtauld - 1860 - 488 pągines
...pleasantness, And all her paths are peace. CM CCCII. BIB H. WOTTON. 1 How happy is he born and taught Who serveth not another's will, Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill : 2 Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied to... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 pągines
...some short poems, which are distinguished by a dignity of thought and expressiou rarely excelled. 1. How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! 2. Whose passions not his masters are,... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 pągines
...itself. Francois de La Rochefoucauld « Be true to your own highest convictions. William E. Channing K How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! Sir Henry Wotton 3. James Lane Allen... | |
 | Joan Thirsk - 1990 - 484 pągines
...For the cottager with ample common rights, there was profound truth in Sir Henry Wotton's dictum : How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will. C. ENCLOSURE AND ENCROACHMENT Such an economy was peculiarly vulnerable, however, to the new economic... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pągines
...(1. 62—64) EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P; PoRA SIR HENRY WOTTON (1568-1639) The Character of a Happy Life 1 he wind was still, Shaken out dead from tree and hill:...wind's will,— 1 sat now, for the wind was still. (1. (1. 1-4) Wotton POETRY QUOTATIONS 2 Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - 2023 - 276 pągines
...practice self-control. I had read the world's best literature, and my mind was stored with consolations. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's...honest thought And simple truth his utmost skill. More radio dates in Los Angeles, and a series of final meetings. We had taken the Philharmonic Auditorium... | |
 | Steven Shapin - 1994 - 534 pągines
...your self."96 Sir Henry Wotton, diplomat and provost of Eton in the early seventeenth century, rhymed "The Character of a Happy Life": "How happy is he born and taught,/ That serveth not anothers will?/Whose armour is his honest thought,/ And simple truth his utmost skill?"97 And Defoe... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - 304 pągines
...set out to inscribe an ideal. (Henry Wotton's lyric "On the Character of a Happy Life" comes to mind: "How happy is he born and taught / That serveth not another's will.") 83 Then again, Keble seems to have drawn on the sense of liturgical antiphony in such psalms as the... | |
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How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will, Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! 
