 Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And,...  The Monthly magazine - Page 117by Monthly literary register - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 pages
...the harmless day With a religious book or friend ; — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. SIB W. WOTTON. JUallelujafj ! dCfjrist in TTARK ! the song of Jubilee ! "^ Loud as mighty thunders... | |
 | 1923 - 748 pages
...entertains the harmless day With a well chosen book or friend ; This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. Sir Thomas More was such a man. On Monday, July 5th, !535> the night before he was beheaded, he wrote... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 pages
...the harmless day With a religious book or friend; 6. This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. GUI. THE ART OF DISCOURAGEMENT. Arthur Helps (6. 1817, d. 1875) graduated at Cambridge, England, in... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...armour is his honest thought. And simple truth his utmost skill! (1. 1-4) Wotton POETRY QUOTATIONS 2 — So this winged hour is dropped to us from above. Oh! clasp we to o (I. 23-24) E1L; GTBS; GTBS-P; LiTB; NOBE; OBEY; OBS; TrGrPo; WGRP On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - 1996 - 224 pages
...of Ancient English Poetry — and the idea that the man free "Of hope to rise, or fear to fall" is "Lord of himself, though not of lands, / And having nothing, yet hath all" (Ault, Lyrics 459-60; the commonplace goes back to Horace and, supposedly, Pythagoras). This passage... | |
 | William J. Bennett - 1997 - 392 pages
...entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands, Or hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. The Emperor and the Peasant Boy This old tale from Mexico reminds us that one heart's honesty has the... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 1997 - 172 pages
...became more beautiful than any lay he sang, and on his shield her heart inscribed the fine old lines, "Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all." CHAPTER III One balmy night, when early flowers were blossoming in Claudia's garden, and the west wind... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 12766 'The Character of a Happy Life' ich is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was 12767 Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes. 12768 'Upon the Death ofSirAlbertus Moreton's... | |
 | George Eliot - 1909 - 476 pages
...And simple truth his only skill t • •••••• His man is freed bom servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all." — Sm HENBT WOTTON. DOROTHEA'S confidence in Caleb Garth's knowledge, which had begun on her hearing... | |
 | Henry Salt - 2000 - 198 pages
...modern writer, can we apply Sir Henry Wbtton's stanza: This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. We have seen that he was not, like Emerson, a philosopher of wide far-reaching sympathies and cautious... | |
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