 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...raise, Nor vice hath ever unden tood ; How deepest wounds are giv'n by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good. Who hath his life from rumours freed,...retreat: Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruine make oppressors great. W/ho God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than/gifts to lend:... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - Unitarian churches - 1852 - 674 pages
...Untied unto the world by care Of public fame, or private breath; — 3 Who hath his life from rumors freed ; Whose conscience is his strong retreat ; Whose...neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great ; — 4 Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend, And walks with man from... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...raise, Nor vice hath ever understood ; How deepest wounds are given by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good. Who hath his life from rumours freed,...gifts to lend : And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book, or friend. WHITTIER. 21U This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or... | |
 | Robert Bridges - English poetry - 1924 - 296 pages
...still prepared for death, Untied unto the world with care Of prince's love or vulgar breath. . . . Who hath his life from rumours freed ; Whose conscience...Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make accusers great : Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1924 - 774 pages
...never understood 14 How deepest wounds are given with praise ; Nor rules of state, but rules of good : Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend ; Who entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend ; 20 — This man is free from... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 pages
...deepest wounds are given by praise; Nor rules of state, but rules of good : Who hath his life from rumors freed; Whose conscience is his strong retreat; Whose...gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a well chosen book or friend; — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall;... | |
 | Periodicals - 1893 - 580 pages
...deepest wounds are given by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good. Who hath his life from humors freed, Whose conscience is his strong retreat ; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make accusers great. Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 906 pages
...death; Untied unto the world with care Of princely love or vulgar breath; Who hath his life from rumors freed, Whose conscience is his strong retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make accusers great; Who envieth none whom chance doth raise Or vice; who never understood How deepest wounds... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...raise, Nor vice; who never understood 10 How deepest wounds are given by praise: Nor rules of state, but e sente hem hoom to every lond. 400 But of his craft...stremes and his daungers him bisydes," His herberwe 15 Nor ruin make oppressers great; Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to... | |
 | Christopher Morley - American literature - 1927 - 1128 pages
...raise, 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;...gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend; This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord... | |
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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. 
