 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...o" the sin, The hazard of concealing ; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling ! To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her : And gather gear by ev'ry wile That's justified by honour; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train-attendant ; But... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1853 - 360 pages
...Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her, And gather gear by every wile That's justified by honour. Not for to hide it in a hedge — Not for a train...for the glorious privilege Of being independent." He became the historian of his adopted town (Birmingham), and throughout life was fond of amusing himself... | |
 | Money - 1853 - 168 pages
...course, and sink into oblivion. Fortunate is he who acquires them early. CHAPTER IV. GETTING MONET. "To catch Dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait...And gather gear by every wile That's justified by honour ; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Not for a train attendant ; But for the glorious privilege... | |
 | 1853 - 792 pages
...ability of profiting by aught else that I have ventured to advise, mainly depending upon it : — " To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait...And gather gear by every wile That's justified by honour. " Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant ; But for the glorious privilege... | |
 | William Lovett - 1853 - 496 pages
...glorified poverty, but he put into none of his verses more of his broad common sense than into these: — " To catch Dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her; And gather gear by ev'ry wile That's justified by honor: Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant; But... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...the quantum o' the sin, The hazard o' concealing, But och! it hardens a' within, BURNS'S POEMS. VII. To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her; And gather gear by ev'ry wile That's justified by honor — Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train-attendant,... | |
 | 1854 - 502 pages
..."There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing." " To catch dame Fortune's glittering sulile, Assiduous wait upon her, And gather gear by every wile That's justified by honour : Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant, Bnt for the glorious privilege Of... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...profuseness, habitual only with the selfish, and irreconcileable with any steadfast domestic virtue. " To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her; And gather pear by every wile That's justified by honor; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant;... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...profuseness, habitual only with the selfish, and irreconcileable with any steadfast domestic virtue. " To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her; And gather pear by every wile That's justified by honor ; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant;... | |
 | Clavin Henderson Wiley - 1855 - 380 pages
...golden euiile, Assiduous wait upon her, And -gather gear by every wjle That's justified by honour : Not for to hide it in a hedge ; Not for a train attendant...for the glorious privilege Of being independent." RESOURCES OF A CULTIVATED MIND. BY KEV. THOMAS F. DAVIS, OF NORTH-CAROLINA. HAPPY is the man, who,... | |
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Och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her; And gather gear by ev'ry wile That's justified by honour; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant; But for the glorious... 
