 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away : The little or the much she gave is quietly resigned : Content with poverty, my soul I arm ; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. What... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 636 pages
...ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings and will not slay I puff the prostitute away : The little or the much she gave, is quietly resigned ; Content with... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in slriff, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...with poverty, my soul I arm ; And virtue, though in ra$js, will keep me warm What is't to me, Who never sail in her unfaithful sea, If storms arise, and... | |
 | Horace - 1861 - 372 pages
...ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of bfe. I can enjoy her while she "s kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...arm ; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. Nor always from afar survey, fyc. From Maecenas's palace on the Esquiline hill, he could command a... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1861 - 424 pages
...ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...arm ; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. Nor always from afar survey, §-c. From Maecenas's palace on the Esquiline hill he could command a... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 552 pages
...partiality, but equity in God, * Cf. Bp. Butler's xvth Sermon, t So Dryden : — " But when she dances on the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away." who deals with us but as our natural parents : those that are able of body and mind he leaves to their... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in sJrife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...quietly resign'd Content with poverty, my soul I arm j And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm What is't to me, Who never sail in her unfaithful sea,... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...For contemplation he, and valour form'd ; For softuess she, and sweet attractive grace. CONTENT. — Content with poverty, my soul I arm ; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. DRYDEN.— 20th Ode, Horace, Book III. Verse 8. I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind; but when she dances in the wind, and shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away; ; the little or the much she gave is quietly resigned : content with poverty my soul I arm, and virtue, though. in rags, will keep me warm. 236... | |
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