I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate myself, if then I made my other friends my asylum. " The valiant warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from... The Harvard Classics - Page 1121909Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...cowardly. I should hate myself, if then I made my other friends my asylum. ' The valiant warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled.' Our impatience is thus sharply rebuked.... | |
| 1894 - 854 pages
...costs. But some think with Shakespeare : — The painful warrior, famoused for fight. After a thousand victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honor...quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. And Tyndall was not minded to be forgot ; at any rate, for that reason. In the autumn of 1851, my friend... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 pages
...in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the book of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd : Then happy I, that love and am belov'd, Where I may not remove, nor be removM." LOVE'S CONSOLATION... | |
| 1845 - 488 pages
...17 18 19 20 4 46 4 44 4 43 4 42 7 15 7 16 7 17 7 18 morn. 0 43 1 £6 1 67 3 67 5 1 " Bashfulness is a tough husk, in which a delicate organization is protected from premature ripening." 6 20 Tue. Wed. 7 33 21 4 41 7 19 7 20 2 26 2 65 84.1 9 33 " Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...cowardly. I should hate myself, if then I made my other friends my asylum. " The valiant warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred victories once foiled, Is from the book of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which, he toiled.'* Our impatience is thus sharply... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...cowardly. I should hate myself, if then I made my other friends my asylum. " The valiant warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled." Our impatience is thus sharply rebuked.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1850 - 484 pages
...buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed...quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled : Then happy I, that love and am beloved, Where I may not remove, nor be removed. Again : the 23d Sonnet... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 382 pages
...old age — ' The painful warrior, famoused for fight, After a thousand victories — once foil'd, Is from the book of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd.' To say the truth, in this instance as in so many others, the great moral of the retribution... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 446 pages
...buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed...quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled : Then happy I, that love and am beloved, Where I may not remove, nor be removed. Again : the 23d Sonnet... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 458 pages
...buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed...quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled : Then happy I, that love and am beloved, Where I may not remove, nor be removed. Again : the 23d Sonnet... | |
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