Rank you amongst her stern disfavourers ; She all things worthy favour doth maintain. Virtue in all things else at best she betters, Honour she heightens, and gives life in death. She is the ornament and soul of letters, The world's deceit before her... The Personality of Emerson - Page 9by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1903 - 133 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1815 - 572 pages
...She all things worthy favour doth maintain. Virtue in all things else at best she betters ; Honour she heightens, and gives life in death ; She is the ornament and soul of letters; 1'he world's deceit before her vanisheth. Simple she is as Doves ; like serpents wise ; Sharp, grave,... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 610 pages
...She all things worthy favour doth maintain. Virtue in all things else at best she betters ; Honour she heightens, and gives life in death; She is the...Sharp, grave, and sacred : nought but things divine, • Robot Ratcliffe. t The same, I presume, to whom Rubt. Green dedicated his Philoniela. S«e Archaica.... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...and of ourselves too, well says of poesie, " Vertue, in all things else at best, she betters ; Honour she heightens, and gives life in death ; She is the ornament and soule of letters : The world's deceipt before her vanisheth."* Some sonnets and other short poems by... | |
| Homerus - 1857 - 336 pages
...; She all things worthy favour doth maintain. Virtue in all things else at best she betters, Honour she heightens, and gives life in death, She is the...fit her faculties, Accepting her as she is genuine. If she be vain then, all things else are vile ; If virtuous, still be patron of her style. THEOPHILDS... | |
| George Chapman - 1875 - 524 pages
...; She all things worthy favour doth maintain. Virtue in all things else at best she betters, Honour she heightens, and gives life in death. She is the...fit her faculties, Accepting her as she is genuine. If she be vain then, all things else are vile; If virtuous, still be patron of her style. XVI. TO THE... | |
| Charles Dunham Deshler - 1879 - 334 pages
...She all things worthy favour doth maintain. Virtue in all things else at best, she betters, Honour she heightens, and gives life in death. She is the...ornament and soul of letters, The world's deceit before lier vanisheth. Simple she is as doves, like serpents wise, Sharp, grave, and sacred ; nought but things... | |
| David M. Main - 1880 - 490 pages
...Her joyes, her smiles, her loves, as readers take For Venus Ccston every line you make. Ben Jonson. And things divining, fit her faculties, Accepting her as she is genuine. If she be vaine then, all things else are vile ; If vertuous, still be Patrone of her stile. ' 21—... | |
| David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...She all things worthy favour doth maintaine. Vertue in all things else at best she betters. Honour she heightens, and gives Life in Death, She is the ornament and soifle of letters, The worlds deceipt before her vanisheth ; Simple she is as Doves, like Serpents... | |
| David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...She all things worthy favour doth maintalne. Vertue in all things else at best she betters, Honour she heightens, and gives Life in Death, She is the ornament and soule of letters, The worlds deceipt before her vanisheth ; Simple she is as Doves, like Serpents wise,... | |
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