Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. - Page 38by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849Full view - About this book
| William Smith - 1863 - 1002 pages
...fiction ; " Man Is his own Star ; and the sonl that can % Render an honest and a perfect man. Commands all light, all influence, all fate: Nothing to him falls early, or too late." FLKTCHER'S Lines " Upon an Ifoneft Man's Fortune." 4 A early teaching and custom supplied the place... | |
| Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 pages
...of an honest Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate ; Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Upon an Honest Man's Fortune. — JOHN FLETCHER. MAN. Some Good in every MAN Hopelessly Evil. No There... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Letlrr to Ben Jonson. JOHN FLETCHER. 1576-1625. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. Upon an " Honest Alan's Fortune." THOMAS CAREW. 1589-1639. He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip... | |
| 1865 - 496 pages
...COMPOSITE NATURE. " Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate ; Nothing to him falls early, or too late." JOHX FLETCHER. MAN is my subject. Man, the most noble and most wonderful work of God's hands. I propose... | |
| Francis Beaumont - 1866 - 742 pages
...Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate ; Nothing to him fulls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still ; And when the stars are labouring, we believe It is not that they govern, but they grieve For stubborn... | |
| Jonathan Eastwood - 1866 - 586 pages
...Saml. 1. 1. Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Fletcher, Upon an Honest Man's Fortune, 35 . Inhabiter, sb. (Rev. viii. 13; xii. 12). An inhabitant.... | |
| Jonathan Eastwood - 1866 - 588 pages
...Jfaml. I. i. Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Fletcher, Upon an Honest Man's Fortune, 35. Inhabiter, sb. (Key. viii. 13; xii. 12). An inhabitant.... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...All'i W. i. 1. Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate,— Nothing to...or ill, Our fatal shadows, that walk by us still. Beaumont l( Fletrher, He who depends upon his wind and limbs, Needs neither cork or bladder when he... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1868 - 444 pages
...youth, and of innocence, and of opportunity; — the angels of prayer, and of time, and of death ; " Our acts our angels are — or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still." These too are God's messengers ; these are even more to us for practical consideration than Saint Michael... | |
| Matilda Homersham - 1868 - 298 pages
...knees, and bowing his head on the book, prayed that he might have strength to overcome. CHAPTEK III. " Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows, and walk by us still." BEATTMONT AND FLETCHER. TT will now be seen that the stranger J- who watched... | |
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