 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1883 - 544 pages
...which I have 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...envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Xot from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better than ill known Rumour can ope the grave.... | |
 | Alexander Whyte - 1883 - 250 pages
...packthread given him over and above into the bargain." *' This only grant me, that my means may He Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but from good alone. The unknown are better than ill-known : Rumour can ope the grave.... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 326 pages
...came return. ABRAHAM COWLEY. Born 1618. Died 1667. THE WISH. THIS only grant me, that my means may lay 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.... | |
 | Book-lover - 1883 - 262 pages
...part, whieh I here setdown (if a very little wore eorreeted), I should hardly now be mueh ashamed. Thia only grant me ; that my means may lie Too low for envy, for eontempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not frem great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are... | |
 | Emma A. Yarnall - 1897 - 254 pages
...beginning of it is boyish ; but of this part, which I here set down, 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, then ill known ;... | |
 | Yarnall - 1897 - 104 pages
...beginning of it is boyish ; but of this part, which I here set down, I should hardly now be much ashamed. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high, i Some honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone; The unknown are better, then ill known;... | |
 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - 1897 - 282 pages
...Vote^re not unworthy of George Herbert at his best : ' This only grant me, that my means may lie i.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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 586 pages
...of them are quite well worth reading. His Essays are pleasing specimens of English prose. OF MYSELF. 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 ;... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1899 - 336 pages
...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 Too low...contempt too high ! Some honour I would have ! Not from great deeds ; but good, alone. Th' ignote are better than ill known ! Rumour can ope the grave... | |
 | 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 ;... | |
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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. 
