 Oxford ! one of which fell with him, Unwilling to outlive the good that did it ; The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous, So excellent in art and still so rising, That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue. His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him...  The Inland Educator - Page 1021895Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 644 pages
...excellent in art, and still so rising, That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue. His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him ; For then, and not till then,...blessedness of being little : And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God. Kath. After my death I wish no other... | |
 | Henry Godwin - 1842 - 1018 pages
...great man; but I should still have doubted it, had it not been for this adversity : — His orerthrow heaped happiness upon him : For then, and not till...himself; And found the blessedness of being little, t Let us, however, take a nearer view of his conduct, and see, with what weapons he armed himself against... | |
 | Victor Aimé Huber - 1843 - 554 pages
...yet so famous. So excellent in art and still so rising. That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue. His overthrow heaped happiness upon him ; For then,...blessedness of being little : And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing GOD." As far as regards the Christian resignation... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1907 - 404 pages
...soul Wolsey had been diverted by temporal aims : to greatness of soul he returns. His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him ; For then, and not till then,...blessedness of being little : And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God.2 Yet a fourth personage enters into... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 206 pages
...so famous, So excellent in art, and still so rising, That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue. His overthrow heaped happiness upon him ; For then,...blessedness of being little : And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God. Kath. After my death I wish no other... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 204 pages
...so famous, So excellent in art, and still so rising, That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue. His overthrow heaped happiness, upon him ; For then,...blessedness of being little : And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give_him, he died fearing God. Kath. After my death I wish no other... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 380 pages
...excellent in art and still so rising, That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue. His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he...the blessedness of being little: And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God. KATH. After my death I wish no other... | |
 | Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond - 1909 - 398 pages
...yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss. — JAMES 4: 2, 3 His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then,...himself, And found the blessedness of being little. SHAKESPEARE Success feeds with fresh hopes; they are able to conquer because they seem to be able.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 236 pages
...broken with the storms of state," to beg "a little earth for charity"; and when "His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he...himself, And found the blessedness of being little." Nor is the change in our feelings towards them, after their fall, merely an effect passing within ourselves:... | |
 | William Richard Harris - 1909 - 446 pages
...He died as he had lived, a Christian, with the resignation of a devout man, the fortitude of a hero. "And to add greater honors to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God." An imposing mortuary shaft rises over his grave in the lonely military cemetery at Fort Douglas. The... | |
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