 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 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. Sin H. WOTTON. WISDOM. WouLD Wisdom for herself be wooed, And wake the foolish from his What's that... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pàgines
...armour is his honest thought. And simple truth his utmost skill! (1. 1-4) Wotton POETRY QUOTATIONS 2 Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. (I. 23-24) E1L; GTBS; GTBS-P; LiTB; NOBE; OBEY; OBS; TrGrPo; WGRP On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - 1996 - 224 pàgines
...of Ancient English Poetry — and the idea that the man free "Of hope to rise, or fear to fall" is "Lord of himself, though not of lands, / And having nothing, yet hath all" (Ault, Lyrics 459-60; the commonplace goes back to Horace and, supposedly, Pythagoras). This passage... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 1997 - 172 pàgines
...became more beautiful than any lay he sang, and on his shield her heart inscribed the fine old lines, "Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all." CHAPTER III One balmy night, when early flowers were blossoming in Claudia's garden, and the west wind... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pàgines
...an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 12766 'The Character of a Happy Life' Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. 12767 Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes. 12768 'Upon the Death ofSirAlbertus Moreton's... | |
 | George Eliot - 1909 - 476 pàgines
...is his honest thought And simple truth his only skill t • •••••• His man is freed bom servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord...not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all." — Sm HENBT WOTTON. DOROTHEA'S confidence in Caleb Garth's knowledge, which had begun on her hearing... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1999 - 516 pàgines
...armor is his honest thought. And simple truth his utmost skill. This man is free from servile hands Of hope to rise or fear to fall ; Lord of himself...not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all." SAMUEL WALKER, OF WOBURN, MASS., AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. By ARTHUR 6. LORINO and WILLIAM R. CUTTER,... | |
 | Henry Salt - 2000 - 198 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Nahdjla Carasco Bailey - 2014 - 132 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 HENRY WOTTON 1 Write a paragraph outlining the qualities the poet thinks are sure to make a man... | |
 | William G. Allen, Louisa May Alcott - 2002 - 164 pàgines
...became more beautiful than any lay he sang, and on his shield her heart inscribed the fine old lines, "Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all." CHAPTER III ONE balmy night, when early flowers were blossoming in Claudia's garden, and the west wind... | |
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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. 
