 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 446 pages
...part which I here set down, if a very little were corrected, I should hardly now be much ashamed. rx. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone. The unknown are better than ill known. Rumor... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1899 - 392 pages
...finished by thy aid, And now my vows have at thy altar paid. 90 ABRAHAM COWLEY, Sylva, 1636. A VOTE. THIS only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone : Th' unknown are better than ill-known ;... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1899 - 336 pages
...carry At morning, May; at night, a January; From the grave City brow (For though it wants an R, it has The Letter of PYTHAGORAS !) ; Keep me, O, Fortune, now! And chines of beef innumerable send me ; Or from the stomachs of the Guard defend me ! This only grant me ! that my means may lie... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1900 - 256 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - 1900 - 330 pages
...side by side they show how thoroughly the child was the father of the man. This is the boy's wish : This only grant me : that my Means may lie Too low...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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 464 pages
...this 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 for envy, for contempt too high. Some honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone; The unknown are better than ill-known: Rumor... | |
 | George Pliny Brown, Charles De Garmo - 1900 - 268 pages
...the complete predicate of each of the following sentences, and parse each verb and each infinitive: This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. \ I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading... | |
 | F. W. Bockett - 1901 - 302 pages
...ideal of happiness, for he was a philosopher as well as a poet, or he would not have written : — This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill-known ; Rumour can ope' the grave ! Acquaintance... | |
 | 1901 - 1080 pages
...feign, and wislvd to see, My Muse bade, Bedford write, and that was she. BEN JONSON. OF MYSELF. ; THI* p, come to the window, and gaze with all the town ! From gay guitar and violin the honor I would have. Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better than ill known •... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 590 pages
...part which I have set down (if a very little were corrected) I should hardly now be much ashamed : — IX This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...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... | |
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This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. 
