 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 378 páginas
...have, Hot from great deeds, but good alone ; • Th' unknown are better than ill-known ; • JRumour can ope the grave ! Acquaintance I would have; but when >t depen'ds Not from the number, but the choice, of friends. • Books fhould, not bufmefs, entertain the light j .... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 296 páginas
...Fortune, now ! And chines of beef innumerable fend me, Or from the ftomach of the guard defend me. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill-known ; Rumour can ope the grave ! Acquaintance I would have ; but when 't depends Not from the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 páginas
...! now, And chines of beef innumerable fend me, Or from the ftomach of the guard defend me. ix. , / This only grant me, that my means may lie / Too low...too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deed*, but good alone : Th' unknown are better than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 páginas
...me, Ot from the ftomach of the guard defend me. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low fur envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, bnt good alone ; Tli" unknown arc better than ill-known ; Rumour can ope the grave ! Acquaintance I... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 páginas
...part, which I here set down (if a very little were corrected), I should hardly now be much ashamed. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...depends Not on the number, but the choice, of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undistulrb'd as death, the night. My... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 páginas
...part which I here set down (if a very little were corrected), I should hardly now be much ashamed. 9. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...: Acquaintance I would have ; but when 't depends J«ot-on the number, but the choice of friends. 10. Books should, not business, entertain the light,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 páginas
...which I here set down (if a very little were corrected), I should. hardly now be much ashamed, 9. i This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill knownf Rumour can ope" the grave : Acquaintance I would have ; .but when 't dnprnds on the number,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 páginas
...which I here set down (if a very little were corrected), I should hardly now be much ashamed, 9This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Jsot from great deeds, but good alone ; Tb.' unknown are better than ill known. Rumour can ope' the... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 páginas
...part, which I here set down (if a very little were corrected), I should hardly now be much ashamed. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...depends Not on the number, but the choice, of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturb'd as death, the night. My... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 páginas
...part which 1 here set down, (if a very little were corrected) I should hardly now be much ashamed. 9. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...contempt too high ; Some honour I would have, Not for great deeds, but good alone ; Th* unknown are better, than ill known. Rumour can ope the grave... | |
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Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but when "t depends Not on the number, but the choice, of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturb'd as death, the night. 
