| Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 pàgines
...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, Of hope to rise,...though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. SIR JOHN DA vies was born at Chisgrove, Wiltshire, in l570. His father was a tanner. In l585, he entered... | |
| Maria Weston Chapman - 1836 - 256 pàgines
...of his grace than goods to lend, And walks with man from day to day, As with a brother and a friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise,...though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. XiXIV. I thank the goodness and the grace Which on rny birth have smiled, I was not born as thousands... | |
| Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 456 pàgines
...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. JOHN DONNE. BORN 1573; DIED 1631. THE life and character of Donne have been made familiar to his countrymen... | |
| 1836 - 596 pàgines
...and at the feast of his own spreading. Happy the man who can say with Sir Henry Wootton, that he is " Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all." But where is that man to be found ? that greatest of all heroes, who can win laurels on the field of... | |
| Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pàgines
...More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertain 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. THE wing of Time passes lightly over the cheek and the brow, unconscious of the ravages of misery and... | |
| 1839 - 876 pàgines
...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." To Wotton, also, has been attributed, on the authority of a doubtful opinion expressed in Walton's... | |
| 1839 - 894 pàgines
...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." To Wotton, also, has been attributed, on the authority of a doubtful opinion expressed in Walton's... | |
| Hosea Ballou - 1839 - 548 pàgines
...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, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of'lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. 411> CM ANONYMOUS. The True Riches: Ps. 37. 1 WITH mines... | |
| 536 pàgines
...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 Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord to himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. THE IMITATOR. A fable from the German... | |
| Hosea Ballou - 1837 - 512 pàgines
...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, or fear to fail ; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. CM ANONYMOUS. The true... | |
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