 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 pages
...fatisfy the reader's curiofity by inferting it here. IX. This only grant me, that my means may lye, Too low for envy', for contempt too high : Some honour...would have ; Not from great deeds, but good alone, The unkaown are better than ill knows, Rumour can ope the grave: Acquaintance I would have, but when 't... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 228 pages
...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...ill known : Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance 1 would have, but when 't depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. • 10. Books ihould,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1772 - 300 pages
...may lie. Too low ip'r envy, for contempt too high, ' Some' hono'ur \ would have, Not from great^eeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better, than ill...can ope the grave. Acquaintance .I would have, but v\hen 't depends Not on the number,' but the choice of friends, . * . • 10. A £oQks flxDuIJ, not... | |
 | John Bell - 1777 - 658 pages
...the guard defend me. IX. This only grant me, that my means may lie 65 Too low for envy, for eontempt too high. .Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknowers are better than ill known : Rumour ean ope the grave. 70 Aequaintants I would have,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 424 pages
...honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone 5 Th' unknown are better than ill known i Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have,...depends Not on the number, but the choice, of friends. Books mould, not bufmefs, entertain the light, And ftcep, as undifturb'd as death, the night. My houfe... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 514 pages
...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...would have, Not from great deeds,, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill knowa i Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 378 pages
...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 pages
...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 ; Rumour can ope the grave ! Acquaintance I would have ; but... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 pages
...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 : Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 pages
...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... | |
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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 ; The unknown are better, than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave. 
