 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - Страниц: 602
...they live Acting by others' actions, Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by their factions. If potentates reply, Give potentates the lie. Tell men of high condition That rule affairs of state, Their purpose is ambition, Their practice only hate. And if they once reply,... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - Страниц: 458
...the world the lie. The Church. " Go, tell the court it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell the church it shows What's good, and doth no good...Then give them both the lie. " Tell potentates, they lire Acting by others' actions, Not lov'd unless they give, Not strong but by their factions : If potentates... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - Страниц: 344
...the lie. Go tell the Court it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Go tell the Church it shows Men's good, and doth no good : If Church and Court reply,...the lie. Tell potentates they live Acting by others' actions, Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by their factions : If potentates reply, Give potentates... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - Страниц: 438
...the lye. Goe, tell the conrt it glowes And shines like rotten wood ; Goe, tell the church it showes What's good, and doth no good; If church and court reply, Then give them both the lye. Tell potentates they live Acting by others actions ; Not lov'd unlesse they give, Not strong but... | |
 | 1852 - Страниц: 838
...lie. " Go tell the court it glows, And shines like rotten wood ; Go tell the church it shows Men^K good, and doth no good : If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie." And so it goes on through thirteen wrangling, jangling verses. In some of them this virtuous soul makes... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - Страниц: 740
...world the lie. BEAUTIFUL POETBY. Go, tell the Court it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell the Church it shows What's good and doth no good ;...the lie. Tell potentates they live Acting by others actions, Not loved unless they give, Not strong bat by their factions ; If potentates reply, Give potentates... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - Страниц: 716
...it glows, And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell the church it shows What's good, and doth no good l If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others actions, Not lov'd unless they give, Not strong but by their factions. If potentates reply, Give potentates... | |
 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - Страниц: 306
...world the he. Go, tell the Court it glows And shines like soften wood ; Go, tell the Church it sAotoj What's good, and doth no good. If Church and Court reply, Then give them both the lie." 'When on the scaffold, he desired to see the axe ; and feeling the edge of it, said to the sheriff,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - Страниц: 552
...die, And give the world the lie. Go, tell the court it glows, And shines like rotten wood, Go, tell the church it shows What's good, and doth no good : If Church ar.d Court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell zeal it lacks devotion, Tell love it is but lust,... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - 1854 - Страниц: 346
...live Acting ; but oh their actions ! Not lov'd unless they give ; Not strong but by their factions. If potentates reply, Give potentates the lie. Tell men of high condition, That rule affairs of state, Their purpose is ambition, Then- practice only hate ; And if they do reply,... | |
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Say to the court it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Say to the church it shows What's good, and doth no good: If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. "Tell potentates they live Acting by others' action; Not loved unless they give,... 
