The unknown are better, than ill known : Rumor 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. Abraham Cowley - Página 69por Emma A. Yarnall - 1897 - 93 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 228 páginas
...part, which I here fet down (if a very little were corrected), I mould hardly now be much afhamed. This only grant me, that my means- may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. K 2 Some Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better, than'... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 228 páginas
...which I here fet down (if a very little were correfted), I fhould hardly now be much afhamed. 9This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. , K z Some Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone; The unknown are better,... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 298 páginas
...afhamed. This only grant me, that my means may Ijc Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better, than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but when 't depends Not on the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 514 páginas
...part, which I here fet down (if a very little were correfted) I fhould hardly now be much afhamed. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds,, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill knowa... | |
| 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 for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill-known ;... | |
| 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 for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deed*, but good alone : Th' unknown are better than ill known :... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 páginas
...this part, which I here fet down (if a very little Bft corrected) I fhould hardly now be much amamed. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; •Th' unknown arc better than ill known... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 páginas
...beginning of it is boyish ; but of this part, which I here set down (if a very little were corrected), I should hardly now be much ashamed. This only grant...lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill known :... | |
| 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 for envy, for contempt too high, Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill knownf... | |
| 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 for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill known.... | |
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