 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pàgines
...his hand between his teeth, When he might spurn him with his foot away? CONTENT. I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering griefjt ,. , And wear a golden sorrow. Poor, and content, is rich and rich... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 648 pàgines
...a stranger now again.8 Anne. So much the more Must pity drop upon her. Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Old L. Our content Is our best having. 9... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 650 pàgines
...of which her own fate was, ere long, to be another illustration — ' Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow — I would not be a queen !' — and the maidenly way in... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pàgines
...greatest stroke of fortune falls, Will bless the king. THE BLESSINGS OF A LOW STATION. 'Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble" livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. <IUEF.N KATHARINE'S SPEECH TO HER HUSBAND'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 648 pàgines
...of which her own fate was, ere long, to be another illustration — ' Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to he perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow — I would not be a queen !' — and... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 pàgines
...flame most in Summer, and the helmets gliitrr brightest in the fairest sunshine. Spenser. Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content. Than to be perked up in a glittering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Shahxpeare. All that gluten is not gold. lit. Steel glosses... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pàgines
...nffic-;, but if ii..- rtay "p afler midnight you shall take him napping. — JUshnp CCXLIL 'Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Shakspcare. CCXLIII. Sharpness cuts slight... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pàgines
...stranger now agatn.1 .¡лиг. So much the more Must pity drop upon her. Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content. Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Old L. Our content Is our best baring.2... | |
 | Arabella Jane Sullivan - 1833 - 212 pàgines
...those lines of Anne Boleyne'a, that I came home and learned (hem by heart — ' I swear 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering «jef And wear a golden Borrow,' If I had but married an honest, true-hearted man, with... | |
 | Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - 324 pàgines
...any unprophetical writer, the way to stem the torrent. He says ; — ' Verily, I swear 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.' And I have quite profited by many similar remindings from... | |
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tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. 
