 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1842 - 532 pages
...Nor vice : who never understood How deepest wounds are given — by praise ; Nor rules of state, but rules of good ; Who hath his life from rumours freed...great ; Who God doth, late and early, pray More of hisffrace than $ri/rs to lend ; And entertains the harmless day, With a religious book or friend. This... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1810 - 726 pages
...soule is still prepared for death: Unty'd unto the world with care Oi princely lave, or vulgar breath. Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience...retreat : Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruine make accusers great. Who cnvieth none whom chance doth taiie, Or vice : who never understood,... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Unitarian churches - 1844 - 672 pages
...his strong retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great; — 5 Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace...the harmless day With a religious book or friend; — 6 This man is freed from servile banda Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - Hymns, English - 1844 - 582 pages
...his strong retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great; — 5 Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace...entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend ; — 6 This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1844 - 378 pages
...is still prepared for death ; Not ty'd unto the world with care Of princes ear, or vulgar breath : Who hath his life from rumours freed ; Whose conscience...retreat : Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruine make oppressors great : Who envies none whom chance doth raise, Or vice : who never understood... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - Unitarian churches - 1844 - 602 pages
...wounds are given by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good; — 4 Who hath his life from rumors freed ; Whose conscience is his strong retreat; Whose...neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great; — 5 Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1844 - 576 pages
...wounds are given by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good ; — 4 Who hath his life from rumors freed ; Whose conscience is his strong retreat; Whose...neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great ; — 5 Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...raise, Or vice ; who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise ; Xor rules of state, but obert Chambers «täte can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great ; Who God doth late and early pray,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...given with praise ;3 Nor4 rules of state, but rules of good : Who hath his life from rumours freed ;5 Whose conscience is his strong retreat ; Whose state...With a religious book or friend : — This man is freed6 from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands,... | |
 | sir Henry Wotton - English poetry - 1845 - 222 pages
...; Whose Conscicnce is his strong retreat ; [i5] Whose State can neither Flatterers feed, Nor Ruine make Oppressors great ; Who God doth late and early...than Gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day [20] With a Religious Book, or Fricnd ! This man is freed from servile [b]ands Of hope to rise, or... | |
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This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. 
