 | English poetry - 1853 - Страниц: 552
...have ; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. SHAKSPEAIIE. THE HAPPY LIFE. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's...passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the worldly care Of public fame or private breath. Who envies none... | |
 | Thomas Amyot, John Payne Collier, William Durrant Cooper, Alexander Dyce, Barron Field, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright - 1853 - Страниц: 510
...Sir Henry Wotton, and is so beautiful, that we may be excused quoting the first two and last verses. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's...passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death ; Untied unto the World by care Of publick fame, or private breath. This Man is... | |
 | 1853 - Страниц: 560
...CUNNINGHIM. 2 18 THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE. fire Cfcafacter of s £JTO fife How happy is he horn and taught, That serveth not another's will ! Whose...passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death ; Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath. Who envies none... | |
 | 1853 - Страниц: 596
...descending. 4 Cradled in its quiet deep, 323. LM SIR HENRY WOTTON. 0 An Independent and Happy Life. 1 How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not...honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill. 2 Whose passions not his masters are ; Whose soul is still prepared for death ; Not tied unto the world... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - Страниц: 372
...some short poems, which are distinguished by a dignity of thought and expressiou rarely excelled. 1. How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! 2. Whose passions not his masters are,... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - Страниц: 356
...itself. Francois de La Rochefoucauld « Be true to your own highest convictions. William E. Channing K How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! Sir Henry Wotton 3. James Lane Allen... | |
 | Joan Thirsk - 1990 - Страниц: 484
...For the cottager with ample common rights, there was profound truth in Sir Henry Wotton's dictum : How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will. C. ENCLOSURE AND ENCROACHMENT Such an economy was peculiarly vulnerable, however, to the new economic... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - Страниц: 1172
...(1. 62—64) EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P; PoRA SIR HENRY WOTTON (1568-1639) The Character of a Happy Life 1 he wind was still, Shaken out dead from tree and hill:...wind's will,— 1 sat now, for the wind was still. (1. (1. 1-4) Wotton POETRY QUOTATIONS 2 Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - 2023 - Страниц: 276
...practice self-control. I had read the world's best literature, and my mind was stored with consolations. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's...honest thought And simple truth his utmost skill. More radio dates in Los Angeles, and a series of final meetings. We had taken the Philharmonic Auditorium... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - Страниц: 304
...set out to inscribe an ideal. (Henry Wotton's lyric "On the Character of a Happy Life" comes to mind: "How happy is he born and taught / That serveth not another's will.") 83 Then again, Keble seems to have drawn on the sense of liturgical antiphony in such psalms as the... | |
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HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public... 
