 | 1884 - 458 pages
...be regarded as an unmixed good. As Young, in his Night Thoughts, puts it : "Talents, angel-bright, If wanting worth, are shining instruments In false ambition's hand, to finish faults t Illustrious, and give infamy renown." The principles of revealed religion must be inculcated in the... | |
 | 1889 - 934 pages
...name ! 6. WILLIAM WINTER — The Queen's Domain. Line 00. Talents angel-brigM, If -wanting xvorth, are shining instruments In false ambition's hand,...finish faults Illustrious, and give infamy renown. • c. YOUNG — Aiijltt Tkowjhts. Night VI. Line 273. Too low they build who build beneath the stars.... | |
 | John Heyl Vincent, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, John Thomas McFarland - 1890 - 444 pages
...from no condition rise. Act well your part ; there all the honor lies.— Pope. Talents angel-bright If wanting worth, are shining Instruments In false...finish faults Illustrious, and give infamy renown.— Young. When godliness is wanting justice will be violated. Ver. 13. — Lord Barrington • шее... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...in, and a fading name ! t. WILLIAM WINTER — The Queen's • Domain. L. 90. Talents angel-bright, Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 143. Love's...her slow dogs of war. h. SHELLBY— Hellas. L. 321. j. YOUNG— Night Thoughts. Night VI. L. 276. Too low they build who build beneath the stars. t. YOUHQ—... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 pages
...tell, Evanishes at crowing of the cock. 5091 Blair: Grave. Line 67. TALENTS. Talents angel-bright, If wanting worth, are shining instruments In false...finish faults Illustrious, and give infamy renown. 5092 Young : Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 27a TALKING — see Boasting, Bores, Eloquence, Speech,... | |
 | 1858 - 688 pages
..."without God." The results of his conduct verify the words of Young : — " Talents, angel bright, If wanting worth, are shining instruments In false...finish faults Illustrious, and give infamy renown ;" and in his own experience as faithfully verify the fearful predictions of the Psalmist concerning... | |
 | 1913 - 264 pages
...gain'd before, By vain ambition still to make them more. Pope: Essay on Criticism. Talents angel-bright, If wanting worth, are shining instruments In false...finish faults Illustrious, and give infamy renown. Young: Night Thoughts. Gentleman; see Character and Man. A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman, Fram'd... | |
 | James Shane - 2002 - 710 pages
...riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. Young: Talents Angel-bright, if wanting worth, are shining instruments in false...finish faults illustrious, and give infamy renown. Montesquieu: Now this is how I define talent; it is a gift God has given us in secret, which we reveal... | |
 | 1846 - 208 pages
...is elevated place — 'tis more, It makes the pott stand candidate for the . "Talents, angel bright, If wanting worth, are shining instruments , In false...finish faults Illustrious, and give infamy renown ; Heart-merit wanting, mount we no'or so high, Our height is but the gibbet of our name." He who doubu... | |
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But wherefore envy \ Talents angel-bright, If wanting worth, are shining instruments In false ambition's hand, to finish faults Illustrious, and give infamy renown. 
