| Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pàgines
...More of his grace than goods to send, OF LIFE With a well-chosen book or friend, — This man is free from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall;...though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. SIR HENRY WOTTON ENGLISH (1568-1639) My heart leaps up when I behold My heart leaps up when I behold... | |
| George Eliot - 2005 - 1416 pàgines
...That serveth not another's will? Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill? This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise,...though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. SIR HENRY WOTTON Dorothea's confidence in Caleb Garth's knowledge, which had begun on her hearing that... | |
| Ahmad M. Kathrada - 2005 - 156 pàgines
...of differences with friends and associates, of hideously unfair and wounding criticisms. -JC Smuts This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise,...though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. - Sir Henry Wotton (Form of oath taking among Shoshone Indians is:) The earth hears me. The sun hears... | |
| 136 pàgines
...More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise...though not of lands, And having nothing yet hath all. Sir Henry Wotton 1568-1639 The Character of a Happy Life 24. A person who has given up all desires... | |
| George Eliot - 2006 - 550 pàgines
...serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill!" *** "This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise...though not of lands; And having nothing yet hath all." "- SIR HENRY WOTTON." Dorothea's confidence in Caleb Garth's knowledge, which had begun on her hearing... | |
| Raymond Hicks - 2007 - 238 pàgines
...louder than words. A suitable epitaph for Dad is provided by Sir Henry Wotton: A well-laden bus in 1ndia This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise,...though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all. (Sir Henry Wotton) It occurred to me that many people, like my father, qualify for the above epitaph,... | |
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